[Distutils] Help with buildout

[Ross Patterson]

Kamal Bin Mustafa <kamal.mustafa at gmail.com> writes:

> Got this when running your buildout so I can't test the generated
> interpreter:-
>
> Error: There is a version conflict.
> We already have: colander 0.9.9
> but notaliens-web 0.0 requires 'colander>0.9.9'.
>
> notaliens.com/eggs/PasteDeploy-1.5.0-py2.7.egg',
>
> Does it a typo or really correct path ? Assuming you run the buildout
> at the root of your project dir, then it should be relative to 
> eggs/PasteDeploy-1.5.0-py2.7.egg', no ?

In my experience, this error is usually a conflict with a distribution
installed in the system/base python installation.  Try using a
virtualenv:

    $ virtualenv .
    $ bin/python bootstrap.py
    $ bin/buildout

HTH,
Ross