[Distutils] setuptools

[James Polley]

After a quick spot of research, I'm assuming you got to this point by
reading http://www.nltk.org/install.html and following the link in step 1
to https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools

If that's the case, the answer to your questions is in the document you
read. Under the "Unix and Mac OS" heading it tells you to "follow the wget
instructions but replace wget with curl"

If you follow the wget instructions, they note that you may get this error,
and tell you how to proceed:

Note that you will may need to invoke the command with superuser privileges
to install to the system Python:

> wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py -O - | sudo python


But don't do that. Those instructions are intended to work anywhere, from a
very old system that has a very very old version of python right through to
a system that already has everything installed.

You should be able to just go back to http://www.nltk.org/install.html  and
start from step 3: Install Numpy (optional): run sudo pip install -U numpy

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 8:35 PM Peter Hodges <phodges at id.iit.edu> wrote:

> Newbie to Python
> Goal try to use NLTK
>
> Mac OSX 10
> I downloaded and installed python 3.5
>
> Next I went to the NLTK site.
> It has instructions about easy_install and setup tools.
>
> I went to the Linux and Mac OS line:
>
> curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py -o - | python
>
>
> I entered this in a terminal window:
>
>
> curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py -o - | python
>
>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time
> Current
>
>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left
> Speed
>
> 100 11432  100 11432    0     0  49709      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--
> 49921
>
> Downloading
> https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-16.0.zip
>
> Extracting in /var/folders/fy/c6gf5sxx7px6p0tyj9ks3dw80000gn/T/tmpI86dYV
>
> Now working in
> /var/folders/fy/c6gf5sxx7px6p0tyj9ks3dw80000gn/T/tmpI86dYV/setuptools-16.0
>
> Installing Setuptools
>
> running install
>
> Checking .pth file support in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/
>
> error: can't create or remove files in install directory
>
>
> The following error occurred while trying to add or remove files in the
>
> installation directory:
>
>
>     [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/test-easy-install-702.pth'
>

> The installation directory you specified (via --install-dir, --prefix, or
>
> the distutils default setting) was:
>
>
>     /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/
>
>
> Perhaps your account does not have write access to this directory?  If the
>
> installation directory is a system-owned directory, you may need to sign in
>
> as the administrator or "root" account.  If you do not have administrative
>
> access to this machine, you may wish to choose a different installation
>
> directory, preferably one that is listed in your PYTHONPATH environment
>
> variable.
>
>
> For information on other options, you may wish to consult the
>
> documentation at:
>
>
>   https://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/easy_install.html
>
>
> Please make the appropriate changes for your system and try again.
>
>
> Something went wrong during the installation.
>
> See the error message above.
>
>
> I looked at the PATH variable:
>
>
> dhcp127-219:~ phodges$ echo $PATH
>
>
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
>
> dhcp127-219:~ phodges$
>
> I would appreciate any suggestions on how to proceed.
> Thanks,
> Peter
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