[XML-SIG] installing PyXML

Martin v. Loewis martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de
Fri, 29 Jun 2001 07:15:00 +0200


> I am trying to install PyXML-0.6.2.
> >From running "python setup.py install" it appears to create
> the package at /local/lib/python2.0/site-packages/_xmlplns

Unless your python is in /local/bin/python, it should go to

/usr/local/lib/python2.0/site-packages/_xmlplus

instead by default.

> how can I modify this such that I can specify where I want the
> package to be created?

You can give a --prefix option to setup.py. See the distutils
documentation, or setup.py --help, for details.

Regards,
Martin