Problem installing Pylons on OS X

trihaitran · #1 27-Jun-2009, 06:18

I am reading chapter two of the Pylons book (http://pylonsbook.com/en/1.0/installing-pylons.html#quick-start-to-installation-for-the-impatient). In the text I am told to run:

Code:

$ python virtualenv.py --no-site-packages env

This is what I got back:

Code:

$ python virtualenv.py --no-site-packages env
New python executable in env/bin/python
Installing setuptools...........
  Complete output from command env/bin/python -c "#!python
\"\"\"Bootstrap setuptoo...




" --always-copy -U setuptools:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 270, in <module>
  File "<string>", line 198, in main
  File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.5.egg/setuptools/__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
  File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.5.egg/setuptools/extension.py", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Users/haitran/Desktop/env/lib/python2.5/distutils/__init__.py", line 14, in <module>
    exec open(os.path.join(distutils_path, '__init__.py')).read()
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/distutils/__init__.py'
----------------------------------------
...Installing setuptools...done.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "virtualenv.py", line 1230, in <module>
    main()
  File "virtualenv.py", line 420, in main
    unzip_setuptools=options.unzip_setuptools)
  File "virtualenv.py", line 507, in create_environment
    install_setuptools(py_executable, unzip=unzip_setuptools)
  File "virtualenv.py", line 295, in install_setuptools
    cwd=cwd)
  File "virtualenv.py", line 481, in call_subprocess
    % (cmd_desc, proc.returncode))
OSError: Command env/bin/python -c "#!python
\"\"\"Bootstrap setuptoo...




" --always-copy -U setuptools failed with error code 1

What does this mean? I know this must be an easy problem since it's the first thing in the book, but this makes no sense to me. I am running Python 2.5.1 on Mac OS 10.5.7.

crystalattice · #2 28-Jun-2009, 00:51

I can't say for certain but it looks like it's saying that your OS environment doesn't have Python listed in the expected location.

Have you updated your Python installation or are you using the default that comes with OS X? The version that comes with Macs isn't the latest and Apple doesn't provide Python updates, AFAIK. See the Python site for more info.

Plus, I noticed that some Python programs wouldn't run correctly on my Mac until I updated it. I think the default environment for Macs is slightly different than other OSes. Much of the Python development is done on Linux, so the install location is probably different than Unix-based OSes, like Macs.

I'd recommend upgrading Python and trying again to see if that fixes your problem.

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