Locating python

[David Sevilla]

Hi,

Apologies if this was answered somewhere else, I have not found
anything similar anywhere.

I have SUSE 11.0 and I am trying to install a program called
mnemosyne. I need easy_install for this, for which I installed
setuptools through yast2. But when I run easy_install for the final
installation, I get an error like this:

[...]
[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-
packages/test-easy-install-3728.pth'

The installation directory you specified (via --install-dir, --prefix,
or the distutils default setting) was:

    /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/

This directory does not currently exist. [...]

>From what I have gathered by reading here and there, it seems that the
actual path for site-packages is not the place where it is being
looked for. Sure enough, I have /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-
packages/ . What worries me is that there is no file called test*
there, and I am not even able to find the site.py file mentioned in
site-packages/README. I suspect that I have two concurrent
installations or something like that (I do have python and python2.5
inside /usr/lib). How do I untangle this? Or at least how do I get
easy_install to find the right place?

Thanks a lot,

David