[Distutils] Newby Question: install easy_install for python2.5 on RHEL

[Walter Coole]

Perhaps I don't know enough to pick the right value for MYDIR.  Since my
Fedora box has it at /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/setuptools/ and
the 2.4 version is at
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.4.egg/, I
figured:

	sudo sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.5.egg --install-dir
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages

would work, but I get the same error:

	error: invalid Python installation: unable to open
/usr/lib64/python2.5/config/Makefile (No such file or directory)

Any thoughts on what MYDIR should be?

Thanks!
Walter


-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Janssen [mailto:janssen at parc.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 10:26 AM
To: Walter Coole
Cc: distutils-sig at python.org; janssen at parc.com
Subject: Re: [Distutils] Newby Question: install easy_install for
python2.5 on RHEL

Walter Coole <WCoole at aperiogroup.com> wrote:

> When I try to install with:
> 
>  
> 
>                 sudo sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.5.egg

Walter, I believe you want

          sudo sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.5.egg --install-dir MYDIR

which tells it exactly where to put the setuptools package.

Bill

> 
>  
> 
> I get an error:
> 
>  
> 
>                 error: invalid Python installation: unable to open
> /usr/lib64/python2.5/config/Makefile (No such file or directory)
> 
>  
> 
> That I don't really understand.  Yes, it's true that there is no
> /usr/lib64/python2.5/config directory, but I've gotten along nicely
> without one for quite a while.
> 
>  
> 
> I haven't had much trouble with my Fedora box (which uses 2.5 by
> default) or the default 2.4 installation on my RHEL (which doesn't
help,
> since my application needs 2.5), so I started thinking I knew what I
was
> doing.
> 
>  
> 
> I'm sure that there is some confusion due to the fact that I've
> installed python2.5 in a different-than-usual directory.  I need to
keep
> "python" referring to python2.4, since RHEL 5.2 depends on it.
> Presumably, if I can tell setuptools-0.6c11-py2.5.egg enough about
where
> things are, it should be able to adapt.
> 
>  
> 
> I've tried several variations, but haven't made much progress.   If
> anyone could point out which option to use to override its choice of
> directory or which directory to point it to, that would be a big help.
> 
>  
> 
> Or perhaps I've just been looking at this completely wrong-headedly,
in
> which case I'd be most grateful for instructions on how to install
some
> variation of setuptools to work with python2.5 on a RHEL 5 system.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Walter
> 
>  
> 
> PS. In case it matters to anyone, all I really need to do is to
install
> the beatbox module, for which I have the .egg file, but I don't know
how
> to install a .egg file in a useful way without setuptools or some
such.
> It seem a shame to break open the egg and install its guts manually,
but
> if that seems like the available alternative, I'd welcome any
pointers.
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
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