[Distutils] [distribute] distribute_setup.py fails on Linux

[Arve Knudsen]

Hi Tarek

Nevermind, there was a problem with the Python installation so that it
didn't support zlib. Reinstalling Python fixed it :) Sorry for bothering
you. It might be an idea to embellish distribute_setup.py though, so that it
detects that Python can't untar the gzipped archive (due to missing zlib
support). That would've saved us some confusion at least :)

Arve

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Arve Knudsen <arve.knudsen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello
> > I have a rather serious problem with distribute 0.6.14, in that it won't
> > install for me under Python 2.7 on Linux (RHEL 4u6). What happens is
> this:
> > -bash-3.00$ python distribute_setup.py
> > Extracting in /tmp/tmphDMO8m
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "distribute_setup.py", line 485, in <module>
> >     main(sys.argv[1:])
> >   File "distribute_setup.py", line 481, in main
> >     _install(tarball)
> >   File "distribute_setup.py", line 73, in _install
> >     tar = tarfile.open(tarball)
> >   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 1663, in open
> >     raise ReadError("file could not be opened successfully")
> > tarfile.ReadError: file could not be opened successfully
>
> Weird, works for me:
>
> arek at tarek-laptop:/tmp$ wget
> http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py
> --2011-02-03 13:27:33--  http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py
> Resolving python-distribute.org... 88.191.66.185
> Connecting to python-distribute.org|88.191.66.185|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 15757 (15K) [text/x-python]
> Saving to: `distribute_setup.py'
>
>
> 100%[===================================================================================>]
> 15,757      18.9K/s   in 0.8s
>
> 2011-02-03 13:27:39 (18.9 KB/s) - `distribute_setup.py' saved [15757/15757]
>
> tarek at tarek-laptop:/tmp$ sudo python2.7 distribute_setup.py
> [sudo] password for tarek:
> Downloading
> http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/distribute-0.6.14.tar.gz
> Extracting in /tmp/tmpw5VpwH
> Now working in /tmp/tmpw5VpwH/distribute-0.6.14
> Installing Distribute
> ...some install output..
>
>
> >
> > Is the official distribute 0.6.14 archive bad?
>
> No. Can you try to download it and unpack it manually from
>
> http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/distribute-0.6.14.tar.gz
> ?
>
> Maybe there's an permission issue somehow when you call the script.
>
>
> > Arve
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> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org
>
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