I was trying to install setuptools, and I ended up running into a permissions error: % MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.4 python ez_setup.py Downloading http://www.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.5a11-py2.3.e... Processing setuptools-0.5a11-py2.3.egg Copying setuptools-0.5a11-py2.3.egg to /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/site-packages Adding setuptools 0.5a11 to easy-install.pth file Installing easy_install.py script to /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/bin error: /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/bin/easy_install.py: Permission denied So I fixed permissions and tried again: % MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.4 python ez_setup.py Setuptools successfully installed or upgraded. But after the above, I still don't have an easy_install.py script. I had to delete the easy-install and setuptools .egg and .pth files from /Library/Python/2.3/site-packages to get it to install easy_install.py. -- Nicholas Riley <njriley@uiuc.edu> | <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/njriley>