<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi.<div><br></div><div>I'm a newbie to python and am running:</div><div><br></div><div>OS X 10.5.6</div><div>Python 2.5.4</div><div><br></div><div>and have run easy_install for gdal like this:</div><div><br></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages>sudo easy_install GDAL</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Password:</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Searching for GDAL</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Best match: GDAL 1.6.0</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Processing GDAL-1.6.0-py2.5-macosx-10.5-i386.egg</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">GDAL 1.6.0 is already the active version in easy-install.pth</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Using /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/GDAL-1.6.0-py2.5-macosx-10.5-i386.egg</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Processing dependencies for GDAL</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Finished processing dependencies for GDAL</font></div><div><br></div></div><div>However, when I run python and try to import gdal, this is what happens:</div><div><br></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Python 2.5.4 (r254:67917, Dec 23 2008, 14:57:27) </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5363)] on darwin</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">>>> import gdal</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Traceback (most recent call last):</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">ImportError: No module named gdal</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">>>> </font></div><div><br></div><div>Clearly, it's not being found but I don't understand how to debug this any further. I have the *.egg in the site-packages directory but don't understand if there is something else I have to do to make it usable. 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