[Tutor] setuptools question

[Shuying]

I think I tried python2.4 /usr/bin/easy_install -U setuptools and
directly the #! line in easy_install to use python2.4.

On 1/16/06, Liam Clarke <ml.cyresse at gmail.com> wrote:
> How were you calling easy_install?
>
> On 1/16/06, Shuying <shuying at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm not sure where's the best place to ask so I thought I'd try it
> > here.  I've got python2.3 and python2.4 installed on my machine and
> > I'm trying to upgrade setuptools for both versions of python. So I've
> > got no problems upgrading setuptools for python2.3 but when I try to
> > do the same for python2.4, I get :
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "easy_install", line 7, in ?
> >     sys.exit(
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6a5-py2.4.egg/pkg_resources.py",
> > line 236, in load_entry_point
> >     return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6a5-py2.4.egg/pkg_resources.py",
> > line 229, in get_distribution
> >     if isinstance(dist,Requirement): dist = get_provider(dist)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6a5-py2.4.egg/pkg_resources.py",
> > line 115, in get_provider
> >     return working_set.find(moduleOrReq) or require(str(moduleOrReq))[0]
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6a5-py2.4.egg/pkg_resources.py",
> > line 382, in find
> >     raise VersionConflict(dist,req)     # XXX add more info
> > pkg_resources.VersionConflict: (setuptools 0.6a5
> > (/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6a5-py2.4.egg),
> > Requirement.parse('setuptools==0.6a9'))
> >
> > and I'm not sure what's the best way to fix it. Suggestions please!