[Pythonmac-SIG] Install problem

Jack Jansen jack@oratrix.nl
Mon, 05 Nov 2001 10:51:44 +0100


> I have NumPy working under Python 2.1.1 & 10.0.4. If I remember correctly, all I
> did was run 
> 
> sudo python setup.py install
> 
> in the appropriate Numeric directory. I didn't have to muck with PYTHONPATH,
> didn't install "by hand". Using Numeric's setup.py a directory called Numeric
> and a file called Numeric.pth will be installed in site-packages. That should be
> all there is to it, but I haven't tried this with 2.1 under 10.1...

Just,
why did you use "sudo"? I would advise against that, as it installs stuff as 
root. If you run the setup.py as the same user who installed Python there 
should be no reason to use sudo...
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