[Distutils] Trouble installing Myghty with --prefix

[Ian Bicking]

skip at pobox.com wrote:
> I tried installing Myghty 0.99a using this command:
> 
>     python setup.py install --prefix=/usr/local/mojam
> 
> (e.g., non-standard install location).  It downloaded setuptools and
> installed a bunch of other stuff (Paste, etc), all available as eggs.
> Unfortunately, it didn't create packages and didn't make the pkg_resources
> module available.  Any hints about how to get this working would be
> appreciated.  (I have no idea what other details you'll need, never having
> used setuptools - directly or indirectly.  Let me know if there's more I can
> do to explain the situation.)

I suspect it's because setuptools didn't think that 
/usr/local/mojam/lib/... was on the normal site path, and so .pth files 
aren't read from the location.  And when .pth files aren't read, the 
eggs won't be put on the path automatically (though I don't know quite 
how setuptools can work at all when that happens).

There's non-root installation instructions on the setuptools site (and 
maybe included in easy_install now?) that will create a full Python 
environment in a non-standard location, which would probably resolve 
this issue.


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