[Pythonmac-SIG] Problem with PackageManager

[Jack Jansen]

On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 09:54 AM, Andrae Muys wrote:

>
> I've been banging my head against this for a couple of weeks now and  
> haven't had any success.  I have installed MacPython-2.3, on an iBook  
> running MacOSX 10.2.6.  However everytime I try to run the  
> PackageManager I get the same error:
>
> "Unspecified error while parsing database:  
> http://www.python.org/packman/version-0.3/darwin-6.6- 
> Power_Macintosh.plist
> Usually, this means the database is not correctly formatted.
>
> See MacPython Package Manager help page."

Do you have a firewall between you and the internet? If so, did you  
read the section
on firewalls in the Package Manager help page? For this release PM  
doesn't pick
up the firewall information you have set in System Preferences, it  
needs a
different method to specify the firewall.

If this isn't the problem please report back, and we'll try to come
up with other things to test.
--
Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack
If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma  
Goldman