On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Arve Knudsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello > I have a rather serious problem with distribute 0.6.14, in that it won't > install for me under Python 2.7 on Linux (RHEL 4u6). What happens is this: > -bash-3.00$ python distribute_setup.py > Extracting in /tmp/tmphDMO8m > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "distribute_setup.py", line 485, in <module> > main(sys.argv[1:]) > File "distribute_setup.py", line 481, in main > _install(tarball) > File "distribute_setup.py", line 73, in _install > tar = tarfile.open(tarball) > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 1663, in open > raise ReadError("file could not be opened successfully") > tarfile.ReadError: file could not be opened successfully
Weird, works for me: arek@tarek-laptop:/tmp$ wget http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py --2011-02-03 13:27:33-- http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py Resolving python-distribute.org... 88.191.66.185 Connecting to python-distribute.org|88.191.66.185|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 15757 (15K) [text/x-python] Saving to: `distribute_setup.py' 100%[===================================================================================>] 15,757 18.9K/s in 0.8s 2011-02-03 13:27:39 (18.9 KB/s) - `distribute_setup.py' saved [15757/15757] tarek@tarek-laptop:/tmp$ sudo python2.7 distribute_setup.py [sudo] password for tarek: Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/distribute-0.6.14.tar.gz Extracting in /tmp/tmpw5VpwH Now working in /tmp/tmpw5VpwH/distribute-0.6.14 Installing Distribute ...some install output.. > > Is the official distribute 0.6.14 archive bad? No. Can you try to download it and unpack it manually from http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/distribute-0.6.14.tar.gz ? Maybe there's an permission issue somehow when you call the script. > Arve > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > > -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
