Hi Dan, thanks for the quick response. The main thing that made me think Jinja wasn't installing was the messages I had when I ran an easy_install of Sphinx:
chris-adamss-macbook:~ chrisadams$ easy_install Sphinx chris-adamss-macbook:~ chrisadams$ sudo easy_install Sphinx Password: Searching for Sphinx Best match: Sphinx 0.4.2 Processing Sphinx-0.4.2-py2.5.egg Sphinx 0.4.2 is already the active version in easy-install.pth Installing sphinx-build script to /usr/local/bin Installing sphinx-quickstart script to /usr/local/bin Using /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/Sphinx-0.4.2-py2.5.egg Processing dependencies for Sphinx Searching for Jinja>=1.1 Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/Jinja/ Reading http://wsgiarea.pocoo.org/jinja/ Reading http://jinja.pocoo.org/ Best match: Jinja 1.2 Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/J/Jinja/Jinja-1.2.tar.gz#md5=1235a005ade00b213800ff1e798c0241 Processing Jinja-1.2.tar.gz Running Jinja-1.2/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-QMJSbR/Jinja-1.2/egg-dist-tmp--FRFEX No eggs found in /tmp/easy_install-QMJSbR/Jinja-1.2/egg-dist-tmp--FRFEX (setup script problem?) error: Could not find required distribution Jinja>=1.1 >From reading this it now looks like I've managed to install Sphinx, but I'm still missing the pre-requisites (jinja, pygment) before I can use Sphinx. I tried repeating these steps on an Ubuntu VM, to try an eliminate the mac as the problem, and after installing the devtools on ubuntu, all downloaded and installed fine, including the dependencies: sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-dev build-essential (instructions from - http://www.saltycrane.com/blog/2007/01/how-to-install-easy-install-for-python/) I'm assuming that downloading a similar python-dev bundle for the Mac would help me run a successful easy install, but I'm very new to python development, so any clarification on this (or advice how to recreate the same conditions on os x that were on ubuntu for installation) would be very welcome. If there are any manpages or links to explain the finer points of how pythonpath and os x leopard work together, I'd be very grateful too or any pointers to them, Thanks again, C -- Chris Adams mob: 07974 368 229 tel: 0207 558 8971 skype: chris.d.adams twitter: chris_d_adams _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig