Problems with OS X 10.5.6 and Python 2.5 and GDAL 1.6

[Ned Deily]

In article <nad-D1A1B2.10514619022009 at ger.gmane.org>,
 Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:
> It looks like you have installed GDAL to the site-packages directory of 
> the Apple-supplied python 2.5 (which, for 10.5, is 2.5.1, not 2.4).  
> That site-packages directory is /Library/Python/2.5. The Apple-supplied 
> python comes with a sym link from /usr/bin/python.  If you launch it, 
> you'll probably find GDAL is there as expected.
> 
> If you do want to use the python.org python, which is somewhat newer, 
> you need to install its own version of setuptools/easy_install and use 
> it to install GDAL to the site-packages directory of that python which 
> is located here:
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-pack
> ages.  The two python instances co-exist.  To install another 
  easy_install, ensure the python.org python comes first on your 
> PATH, then follow the instructions here:
>    <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools>

BTW, that easy_install will itself be installed into the bin directory 
of the python.org python framework.  So to ensure you are using that 
easy_install and that python, make sure that bin directory is on your 
PATH before "/usr/bin", so, if necessary, something like:

export PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/bin:$PATH"

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org