[Distutils] help please

Matt Good matt at matt-good.net
Wed Mar 28 16:22:03 CEST 2007


On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 13:46 +0100, Hui Zhang wrote: 
> Dear Phillip,
> 
>   Hello. I am a phd student from Unviersity College Dublin,Ireland. I 
> have a problem when I tried to install python with setuptools egg files 
> in cygwin.
>   I did as the webpage(http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/setuptools)
> says. However the
> system said:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>   $sh setuptools-0.6c5-py2.4.egg
>   [[: not found
>   setuptools-0.6c5-py2.4egg is not the correct name for this egg file.
>   Please rename it back to setuptools-0.6c5-py2.4 egg and try again.
>  
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------

This version of the egg actually requires bash and is not quite
compatible with sh.  This is fixed in SVN, but for now run it with bash
instead.

-- Matt Good



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