[Image-SIG] how to install pil locally

[Bob Ippolito]

On Mar 31, 2005, at 8:49 AM, Alejandra Pérez wrote:

> I'm trying to install PIL in my server space where I
> don't have root access. I am not succeeding and the
> error I got is that permission is denied. I've spoken
> to my system admin and he says the problem is that I
> cannot tell python where to install the libraries and
> that I should be able to specify a local path... but I
> don't know where... Does this problem have a
> solution?.
> Thanks a lot in advance and hope not to bother with
> silly questions.

The options that the distutils install command accepts can be listed 
like this:
% python setup.py --help install

Everything else you'd need to know about distutils (as a user/admin) is 
available here, in the documentation:
http://docs.python.org/inst/inst.html

-bob