On Dec 13, 2005, at 1:22 PM, Rob Managan wrote: > Bob Ippolito gives a simple example of using setuptools to develop > modules. That got me interested in installing setuptools. I followed > the instructions for a non-admin OSX user and created a > .pydistutils.cfg file to point to the site-packages is use with raw > distutils stuff. Then I tried to use the ex-setup.py file to install > setuptools and I get this error. > > Extracting setuptools-0.6a8-py2.4.egg to > /Users/managan/Documents/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages > Installing easy_install script to > /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/bin > error: > /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/bin/easy_install: > Permission denied > > > Any idea why it is trying to write to > /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/bin ?? > > I tried various -d -i options but could not get it to work right.
That's where scripts get installed ($PREFIX/bin). You probably forgot to set install_scripts to something else in .pydistutils.cfg -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
