[Tutor] more trouble

Andreas Perstinger andreas.perstinger at gmx.net
Fri Oct 28 21:49:13 CEST 2011


On 2011-10-28 20:45, Eric Schles wrote:
> The help steven gave me makes sense, except I don't know what it means.  How
> do you run the command as root?
> When I try to run the command in the command line, I get the following
> error:
> C:\>easy_install SQLObject
> 'easy_install' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
>
> What does that mean?

Windows can't find the "easy_install.exe" because it's not in C:\ and 
not in your PATH environment variable.

I've no windows here, but from reading the docs you've probably 
installed "easy_install" in your python scripts subdirectory. So you 
have to go there before you can run it:
C:\>cd \Python2x\Scripts (x depends on your installed python version)
C:\Python2x\Scripts>easy_install SQLObject

Or you add the scripts directory to your PATH:
http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall#id5

If you can't find out where it's installed, try searching for 
"easy_install.exe".

HTH, Andreas


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