On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Ralf Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Does setuptools really force global installation >> over private environment settings? >> > > See http://www.eby-sarna.com/pipermail/peak/2006-June/002582.html for > a discussion. > You can deactivate the installed package with easy_install -m py. >
>From the same thread (http://www.eby-sarna.com/pipermail/peak/2006-June/002584.html): """ This isn't what you want. What you want to do is point PYTHONPATH to a staging directory of some sort, and put that directory on the "develop" line. What you're doing here is trying to install the library *onto itself*. -d and PYTHONPATH need to be some *other* location, to which you're installing. >which overrides the site-packages version, but also requires root >access. how would I do this without requiring root access ? mkdir ~/py_lib export PYTHONPATH=~/py_lib cd ~/sa020 python setup.py develop -d ~/py_lib """ i.e. you need to put the egg on PYTHONPATH in order to override the system wide installation, *not* the directory which contains the source code. - Ralf _______________________________________________ py-dev mailing list py-dev@codespeak.net http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/py-dev
