[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: Pythonmac-SIG Digest, Vol 14, Issue 2

[Jack Jansen]

On 3-jun-04, at 12:11, Jon Peirce wrote:

> So I now realise that there was a previous report of this last year  
> (so probably nothing to do with this OSX version). The diagnosis then  
> was to do with the firewall.
>
> In my case, I did have a firewall problem initially, which was causing  
> the databases not to be found. So I set the appropriate http proxy in  
> my environment.plist as instructed and it was then that the databases  
> were found but caused the 'unspecified error while parsing'.
>
> If I download the database files and point to them locally rather than  
> pointing to their URLs I get the same problem.
>
> Which leaves me at a bit of a loss. Any other things I should try?

Try and run pimp (the engine underlying Package Manager) from the  
command line, and see whether that gives more information. Pimp is in  
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/Lib/plat- 
mac/pimp.py.

Running it without any arguments will print the help message.
--
Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack
If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma  
Goldman

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