On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 21:04 +0100, John J Lee wrote:
> Looking at easy_install --help, I see the command to install just the
> one
> package at a time, without downloading anything, is:
>
> easy_install --no-deps <thing to install>
>
>
> Where <thing to install> is the .tar.gz, or .zip, or .egg, or .py.
> So,
> for kid I did:
>
> wget http://www.kid-templating.org/dist/0.9.3/kid-0.9.3.tar.gz
> easy_install-2.4 --no-deps kid-0.9.3.tar.gz
>
>
> Alternatively, download and unpack the tarball (or zip or SVN
> checkout, or
> whatever), change directory into it, and:
>
> python setup.py easy_install --no-deps .
>
I've also had grief with easy_install
many options did not seem to work
other things simply went wrong
some packages were defective in various ways in their EZ setup
The operation is rather opaque and the documentation kind of assumed the
simple cases just worked. When operations fail, the trouble shooting
steps are not obvious.
Phillip Eby has done an excellent job of assembling this tool and has
dealt with issues quickly and effectively. However, there is just such
a huge range of environments that it is hard to make it work right all
the time in all the places.
I think we are very close to achieving reliable operation everywhere,
but I would be a bit more sympathetic to the grumblers. You just don't
know how many people gave up and "walked off" when EZ proved to be
difficult.
In my case, I got the things I needed working eventually, but am pretty
happy to have YUM installing kid and elementtree now. The version lags
a bit behind, but I'm back dealing with stuff that is working reliably
for me.
--
Lloyd Kvam
Venix Corp
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