Yeah. It was that. In this mail this become clear (http://www.mail-archive.com/distutils-sig@python.org/msg00439.html ) it seems the semi-colons are needed in .pth files, and i was using indentation as in python files. Thank you. --adso On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:23 AM, P.J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com> wrote:

At 01:54 AM 12/14/2010 +0100, adso 0000 wrote:

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Hi, i am doing something wrong probably, but when i try to get a custom site-packages location in Debian, i need to set the contents of altinstall.pth just several line with the absolute paths.

If i use the usual python code with site.addsitedir(....) in

Are you using "import site; site.addsitedir(...)", or just "site.addsitedir(...)"?