I'm a newbie to Python, so please be patient with me.... 1) On Ubunto 10.10 I used sudo to install python-setuptools then used easy_install to install zc.buildout.
2) I then logged on as a different user (who is not able to sudo) to create my first buildout project. plone...@ubuntu:~$ mkdir exercise1 plone...@ubuntu:~$ cd exercise1/ plone...@ubuntu:~/exercise1$ buildout init Creating '/home/plonesvc/exercise1/buildout.cfg'. Creating directory '/home/plonesvc/exercise1/bin'. Creating directory '/home/plonesvc/exercise1/parts'. Creating directory '/home/plonesvc/exercise1/eggs'. Creating directory '/home/plonesvc/exercise1/develop-eggs'. Generated script '/home/plonesvc/exercise1/bin/buildout'. 3) I downloaded the bootstrap.py from svn plone...@ubuntu:~$ wget \ http://svn.zope.org/*checkout*/zc.buildout/trunk/bootstrap/bootstrap.py 4)And tried to run the bootstrap - which failed: plone...@ubuntu:~/exercise1$ python bootstrap.py Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.6/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg Traceback (most recent call last): File "bootstrap.py", line 256, in <module> ws.require(requirement) File "/tmp/tmpCfYQ3c/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 666, in require File "/tmp/tmpCfYQ3c/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 565, in resolve pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: zc.buildout==1.5.2 5) I've tried searching for the error via google without success. 6) I have subsequently installed virtual env and setup a new buildout project and run the bootstrap.py successfully. Which, is great but I want to know why I wasn't able to do this without virtual env? I was wondering if someone could explain why step 4 above failed. What was the reason for this? Simon
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