Michele Cella wrote: > I'm running Ubuntu and the most painless solution I've found (at least > for me) it's to install every thing egg-related on /usr/local, I've put > this on my .pydistutils.cfg: > > [install] > prefix=/usr/local > > [easy_install] > site-dirs=/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages > > then when I need to install/upgrade I do it by using sudo, if for some > reason I need to remove something by hand I can find it under > /usr/local without the fear of removing the wrong thing.
The above is actually a recommended pattern on platforms that treat /usr/local/.../site-packages as a "site" directory - which is to say, Debian-based systems. It's basically an abbreviated form of "Administrator Installation": http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall#administrator-installation but you can skip the .pth setup part, since Debian-based systems have patched Python to make the /usr/local/.../site-packages valid. > Virtaul python was not the best for me since it copies many packages It doesn't copy anything except for the actual 'python' executable; everything else is symlinked. So the disk usage is quite minimal, and you can actually make lots of virtual Pythons if you need them for some reason.
