Gaël, Rerunning easy_install a couple of times did the trick.
Thanks for the help. Bob On Dec 13, 2008, at 8:10 AM, Gael Varoquaux wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:27:28PM -0500, Robert Pyle wrote: >> ------ > >> I tried 'easy_install -U ETS==3.1.0' > >> and ended up with: >> ------ >> The package setup script has attempted to modify files on your system >> that are not within the EasyInstall build area, and has been aborted. > >> This package cannot be safely installed by EasyInstall, and may not >> support alternate installation locations even if you run its setup >> script by hand. Please inform the package's author and the >> EasyInstall >> maintainers to find out if a fix or workaround is available. >> ------ > > AFAIK this is a bug/conflict in numpy.distutils or setuptools (hard to > say which one is wrong, but they do raise this problem). > > I think the issue goes away if you rerun the easy_install command > several > times. Each times it seems to go further. > > Gaël > _______________________________________________ > Numpy-discussion mailing list > Numpy-discussion@scipy.org > http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
