<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Sep 11, 2012, at 9:12 AM, Bob Aalsma <<a href="mailto:overhaalsgang_24_bob@me.com">overhaalsgang_24_bob@me.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hmm, this feels embarrassing but the good news is that, on seeing the errors, I remember using a "sudo" with the make install and only later finding out that I shouldn't have.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>Last login: Tue Sep 11 09:46:11 on ttys000</div><div>macpro1:~ debaas$ pwd</div><div>/Users/debaas</div><div>macpro1:~ debaas$ ls</div><div>Desktop<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Documents<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Downloads<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Library<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Movies<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Music<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Pictures<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Public<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sites</div><div>macpro1:~ debaas$ cd Desktop/</div><div>macpro1:Desktop debaas$ cd Python-2.7.3/</div><div>macpro1:Python-2.7.3 debaas$ ls /usr/local</div><div>apache2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>bin<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>clamXav<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>include<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>lib<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>libexec<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>share</div><div>macpro1:Python-2.7.3 debaas$ make install</div><div>/usr/bin/install -c python.exe /usr/local/bin/python2.7</div><div>install: /usr/local/bin/python2.7: Permission denied</div><div>make: *** [altbininstall] Error 71</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So how to proceed here?</div><div><br></div><div>-Bob</div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>As others have commented, please don't top-post.</div><div><br></div><div>The script from which you've captured a fragment of output above isn't going to work on a Mac without rewriting. (Your Mac isn't going to like python.exe for example.) </div><div><br></div><div>As to proceeding, in all honesty, the simplest thing to do is go here:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://www.python.org/download/">http://www.python.org/download/</a> </div><div><br></div><div>Look down the page to the link for <a class="reference external" href="http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.3/python-2.7.3-macosx10.6.dmg" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: Arial, Verdana, Geneva, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Python 2.7.3 Mac OS X 64-bit/32-bit x86-64/i386 Installer</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Geneva, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> (for Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7 </span><a class="footnote-reference" href="http://www.python.org/download/#id11" id="id2" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: Arial, Verdana, Geneva, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">[2]</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Geneva, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">) and grab it. That will hand you a completely prebuilt 2.7.3 (latest) along with an installer that will put it in /Library/Frameworks where it belongs and will even edit your .profile.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Geneva, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Geneva, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Good luck,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Geneva, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Bill</span></div></body></html>