[Distutils] Distribute install problem on Snow Leopard

[Ralf Gommers]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Ralf Gommers
> <ralf.gommers at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I installed Distribute on a Snow Leopard box using the default Python
> that
> > comes with OS X. I used the installation method recommended in the docs,
> the
> > distribute_setup.py script. Now easy_install fails no matter what package
> I
> > try to install (it does not get around to looking for the name of the
> > requested package):
> >
> > $ easy_install blablabla
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/bin/easy_install-2.6", line 10, in <module>
> >     load_entry_point('setuptools==0.6c9', 'console_scripts',
> > 'easy_install')()
> >   File
> >
> "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/distribute-0.6.3-py2.6.egg/pkg_resources.py",
> > line 281, in load_entry_point
> >     return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
> >   File
> >
> "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/distribute-0.6.3-py2.6.egg/pkg_resources.py",
> > line 2197, in load_entry_point
> >     raise ImportError("Entry point %r not found" % ((group,name),))
> > ImportError: Entry point ('console_scripts', 'easy_install') not found
> >
> >
> > Did I forget something, or is this a bug? Any suggestions on how to fix
> it?
>
> This is a bug. It seems that the installation did not upgrade the
> "easy_install-2.6" script located
> in your "/usr/bin". We are going to investigate.
>
> The simplest way to fix this is to change in that script the name of
> the distribution:
>
> > load_entry_point('setuptools==0.6c9', 'console_scripts',
> 'easy_install')()
>
> by
>
> > load_entry_point('distribute==0.6.3', 'console_scripts',
> 'easy_install')()
>
> Let us know how it goes
>

Yes, that fixed it. Thanks!

Ralf



>
> Tarek
>
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