Hi, I was having a bit of trouble installing python module packages on Gentoo after following the "Administrator Installation" section of the documentation.
I kept getting packages installed to /var/tmp/homedir/python2.4/ or something like that. I couldn't figure out what was going on until I came accross a gentoo bug that someone filed and then closed citing installation of setuptools as the culprit. Thats when I realised that I added the following to my distutils.cfg: [install] install_lib = ~/lib/python2.3 # This next line is optional but often quite useful; it directs EasyInstall # and the distutils to install scripts in the user's "bin" directory. For # Mac OS X framework Python builds, you should use /usr/local/bin instead, # because neither ~/bin nor the default script installation location are on # the system PATH. # install_scripts = ~/bin Which would cause all distutils based installations to do that. Further up in the documenation it talks about using the [easy_install] section of distutils.cfg to set some preferences. I changed the above to: [easy_install] install_dir = ~/lib/python2.3 scripts_dir = ~/bin I would recommend changing the documenation to avoid confusion since most people probably want to leave their old distutils operation alone and add these settings for easy_install. -Chris _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
