New submission from Björn Lindqvist : H:\>easy_install pyx Searching for pyx Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pyx/ Reading http://pyx.sourceforge.net/ Reading http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=45430 Best match: PyX 0.10 Downloading http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyx/files/pyx/0.10/PyX-0.10.tar.gz/download Processing PyX-0.10.tar.gz Running PyX-0.10\setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir c:\users\bjolin\appdata\local\temp\easy_install-jaiul5\PyX-0.10\egg-dist-tmp-4kffgf error: Setup script exited with error: SandboxViolation: mkdir('C:\\Python27\\share\\pyx', 511) {} The package setup script has attempted to modify files on your system that are not within the EasyInstall build area, and has been aborted. This package cannot be safely installed by EasyInstall, and may not support alternate installation locations even if you run its setup script by hand. Please inform the package's author and the EasyInstall maintainers to find out if a fix or workaround is available. ---------- messages: 624 nosy: bjourne priority: bug status: unread title: Installation problem with pyx on windows _______________________________________________ Setuptools tracker http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue129 _______________________________________________