[Tutor] Re: How to "install" new package?

Paul Tremblay phthenry at earthlink.net
Sat Nov 15 18:42:06 EST 2003


On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:48:12PM -0500, Paul Tremblay wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 08:41:37PM -0500, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
> > 
> > The name and location of the "root" python directory should
> > not matter.  I've always used non-standard names and locations
> > in Windows with no difficulty.  Even if re-doing the install
> > to the standard location fixes your problem, I would be astonished
> > if the name and location were the real problem.
> > 
> 
> That's been my experience as well. What happens if you try to install
> another package? Could you download a small one (try sourceforge) and
> see what happens? If you get the same error, we know the problem lies
> outside the individual package.
> 
> Paul
> 

Since you wrote me off this mailing list and indicated that you install
other packages with no problem, it would seem that the problem is not
with your python installation, but with the individual package.

Paul

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