Phillip J. Eby wrote: > The normal way to use a setuptools egg you've already downloaded with > ez_setup.py would be to just put the egg in the current directory. > ez_setup.py detects when the requested version of the setuptools egg is > present in the current directory, and will use it without downloading. > In other words, you're trying too hard. :) Just put the setuptools > egg in the current directory and run ez_setup.py. DEFAULT_URL is used > *only* to download the setuptools egg, and it has nothing whatsoever to > do with -f/--find-links; it does not work in the same way at all. -f > is used for *finding* things without a known download URL, and the code > that does that is in the setuptools egg; ez_setup.py doesn't have that > code or all the other easy_install features built in, because then it > would be as big as setuptools itself. :) It just *seems* to have > those features because once setuptools is bootstrapped, it passes the > command-line arguments on to easy_install.
Ok, that makes sense. I can see now that my problem was that ez_setup.py could not find the setuptools egg and that easy_install was not available. So a full install from local files without easy_install already being available would go: 1)Ensure ez_setup.py and the setuptools egg are in the same directory 2) run python ez_setup.py -f <path_to_dl_directory> TurboGears Should this be put in the installation instructions somewhere?
