[Distutils] setuptools easy_install upgrade to 0.6c8 problem

[Scott Brown]

That fixed it, thank you. 


--- On Mon, 28/4/08, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:

> From: Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com>
> Subject: Re: [Distutils] setuptools easy_install upgrade to 0.6c8  problem
> To: doolagarl2002 at yahoo.com.au, distutils-sig at python.org
> Received: Monday, 28 April, 2008, 2:07 PM
> At 08:04 PM 4/27/2008 -0700, Scott Brown wrote:
> >I have upgraded setuptools from 
> >http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall to
> 0.6c8, but my 
> >system keep trying to use the older version 0.6c7. If I
> remove the 
> >older version, then I get the error message:
> >
> >  File 
> >
> "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg/pkg_resources.py",
> 
> > line 524, in resolve
> >pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: setuptools==0.6c7
> >
> >when I try to run easy install.
> 
> What's the full traceback?  I can't tell from just
> those two lines 
> what's actually going on.
> 
> 
> >When I check the installation of the new version it
> says that it has 
> >already been installed:
> >
> >sudo python ez_setup.py
> >Setuptools version 0.6c8 or greater has been installed.
> >(Run "ez_setup.py -U setuptools" to reinstall
> or upgrade.)
> >
> >I am using Mac OS X 10.5. How do I completely remove
> all traces of 
> >the old version of setuptools and get the new version
> 0.6c8 recognised?
> 
> Offhand, my guess is that the script location you're
> installing the 
> new version to is later on your PATH than the old version. 
> It looks 
> like your PYTHONPATH is correct, but that the
> 'easy_install' 
> executable wasn't overwritten when you installed the
> newer version -- 
> i.e., the new version installed its script to a different
> location 
> that's either not on your PATH or is after the location
> where the old 
> easy_install script is.
> 
> So, I would probably do a 'which easy_install' to
> find out which one 
> you're running (I'm assuming OS X includes a
> 'which' command, which 
> it may not) and then run 'ez_setup -U
> --script-dir=/whatever 
> setuptools' where '/whatever' is the directory
> where your current 
> 'easy_install' executable is.


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