[Pythonmac-SIG] PYTHON PATH woes, with a twist - could a good samaritan help out?

[Daniel Ashbrook]

Hmm, strange. One thing you could try is to just download the tar.gz and 
install it manually - usually with "python setup.py install". I don't 
know how to keep easy_install from passing -q (quiet) to setup.py so you 
can see what's going on.

dan


Chris Adams wrote:
> Hi Dan, thanks for the quick response.
> 
> The main thing that made me think Jinja wasn't installing was the
> messages I had when I ran an easy_install of Sphinx:
> 
> chris-adamss-macbook:~ chrisadams$ easy_install Sphinx
> 
> chris-adamss-macbook:~ chrisadams$ sudo easy_install Sphinx
> Password:
> Searching for Sphinx
> Best match: Sphinx 0.4.2
> Processing Sphinx-0.4.2-py2.5.egg
> Sphinx 0.4.2 is already the active version in easy-install.pth
> Installing sphinx-build script to /usr/local/bin
> Installing sphinx-quickstart script to /usr/local/bin
> 
> Using /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/Sphinx-0.4.2-py2.5.egg
> Processing dependencies for Sphinx
> Searching for Jinja>=1.1
> Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/Jinja/
> Reading http://wsgiarea.pocoo.org/jinja/
> Reading http://jinja.pocoo.org/
> Best match: Jinja 1.2
> Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/J/Jinja/Jinja-1.2.tar.gz#md5=1235a005ade00b213800ff1e798c0241
> Processing Jinja-1.2.tar.gz
> Running Jinja-1.2/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir
> /tmp/easy_install-QMJSbR/Jinja-1.2/egg-dist-tmp--FRFEX
> No eggs found in
> /tmp/easy_install-QMJSbR/Jinja-1.2/egg-dist-tmp--FRFEX (setup script
> problem?)
> error: Could not find required distribution Jinja>=1.1
> 
> From reading this it now looks like I've managed to install Sphinx,
> but I'm still missing the pre-requisites (jinja, pygment) before I can
> use Sphinx.
> 
> I tried repeating these steps on an Ubuntu VM, to try an eliminate the
> mac as the problem, and after installing the devtools on ubuntu, all
> downloaded and installed fine, including the dependencies:
> 
> sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-dev build-essential
> 
> (instructions from -
> http://www.saltycrane.com/blog/2007/01/how-to-install-easy-install-for-python/)
> 
> I'm assuming that downloading a similar python-dev bundle for the Mac
> would help me run a successful easy install, but I'm very new to
> python development, so any clarification on this (or advice how to
> recreate the same conditions on os x that were on ubuntu for
> installation)  would be very welcome.
> 
> If there are any manpages or links to explain the finer points of how
> pythonpath and os x leopard work together, I'd be very grateful too or
> any pointers to them,
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> C
> 
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