Hi Tarek
Nevermind, there was a problem with the Python installation so that it
didn't support zlib. Reinstalling Python fixed it :) Sorry for bothering
you. It might be an idea to embellish distribute_setup.py though, so that it
detects that Python can't untar the gzipped archive (due to missing zlib
support). That would've saved us some confusion at least :)
Arve
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Tarek Ziadé
Hello I have a rather serious problem with distribute 0.6.14, in that it won't install for me under Python 2.7 on Linux (RHEL 4u6). What happens is
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Arve Knudsen
wrote: this: -bash-3.00$ python distribute_setup.py Extracting in /tmp/tmphDMO8m Traceback (most recent call last): File "distribute_setup.py", line 485, in <module> main(sys.argv[1:]) File "distribute_setup.py", line 481, in main _install(tarball) File "distribute_setup.py", line 73, in _install tar = tarfile.open(tarball) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 1663, in open raise ReadError("file could not be opened successfully") tarfile.ReadError: file could not be opened successfully
Weird, works for me:
arek@tarek-laptop:/tmp$ wget http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py --2011-02-03 13:27:33-- http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py Resolving python-distribute.org... 88.191.66.185 Connecting to python-distribute.org|88.191.66.185|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 15757 (15K) [text/x-python] Saving to: `distribute_setup.py'
100%[===================================================================================>] 15,757 18.9K/s in 0.8s
2011-02-03 13:27:39 (18.9 KB/s) - `distribute_setup.py' saved [15757/15757]
tarek@tarek-laptop:/tmp$ sudo python2.7 distribute_setup.py [sudo] password for tarek: Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/distribute-0.6.14.tar.gz Extracting in /tmp/tmpw5VpwH Now working in /tmp/tmpw5VpwH/distribute-0.6.14 Installing Distribute ...some install output..
Is the official distribute 0.6.14 archive bad?
No. Can you try to download it and unpack it manually from
http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/distribute-0.6.14.tar.gz ?
Maybe there's an permission issue somehow when you call the script.
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