[Tutor] Attempting to install Boa Constructor

[Danny Yoo]

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 python at pointcontrol.com wrote:

> I've downloaded and run the wxPython 2.4.2.4 rpm. And I've unzipped the
> boa-constructor-0.2.3.src.zip file.
>
> My Python is installed in /usr/local/lib/python2.3, so when the
> boa-constructor zip file created a directory called boa-constructor-0.2.3, I
> put that in the python2.3 directory. That makes the path to boa.py
> /usr/local/lib/python2.3/boa-constructor-0.2.3/boa.py

Hello!


Let's double check something.  Can you try:

    ls -l /usr/local/lib/python2.3/boa-constructor-0.2.3/boa.py

just to make sure that file is there?


The error message that you're getting:

> [barry at dhcppc3 python2.3]$ python /usr/local/lib/python2.3/boa-constructor-0.2.3/boa.py
> python: can't open file '/usr/local/lib/python2.3/boa-constructor-0.2.3/boa.py'

suggests that Python can't even open that file.

It's possible that the file isn't there.  *grin*  But it's also possible
that there might be permission problems, or perhaps it might be a symbolic
link to somewhere that doesn't exist?  Dunno, but the output from 'ls -l'
should help us figure out what's going on.


> All software installs were done by root. This left the permissions for
> the boa-constrctor files as read/write/no-execute for everyone other
> than root. Do the files need to be set to be executable?

No, Python files don't have to be executable.  What you did should have
worked.  Let's double check that it's not a permission problem though, so
show us the output of the 'ls -l'.


Good luck to you!