Hi, on a just-installed Debian sarge AMD64 installation, I have the following behavior, which looks similar to the issue discussed here:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-September/056955.html (Like the author of that message, I have also downloaded setuptools from CVS, and also get an OverflowError.) Any idea why setuptools doesn't seem to be running on my platform? $ uname -a Linux hdmg 2.6.14 #1 SMP Tue Nov 1 23:42:27 PST 2005 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ python Python 2.3.5 (#2, Sep 9 2005, 21:37:55) [GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import ez_setup >>> ez_setup.use_setuptools() --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This script requires setuptools version 0.6a7 to run (even to display help). I will attempt to download it for you (from http://cheeseshop.python.org/packages/2.3/s/setuptools/), but you may need to enable firewall access for this script first. I will start the download in 15 seconds. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Downloading http://cheeseshop.python.org/packages/2.3/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6a7-py2.3.egg Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "ez_setup.py", line 80, in use_setuptools import setuptools; setuptools.bootstrap_install_from = egg OverflowError: signed integer is greater than maximum _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
