[Setup] Easy install ZopeSkel fails, workaround

Martin Weigele martin at weigele.de
Wed Mar 2 13:25:35 UTC 2011


Under Ubuntu 10.04, python 2.6.5 a workaround is to use
apt-get install python-pastescript which, unlike in 10.10, works.

Am Mittwoch, 2. März 2011, um 13:54:24 schrieb Martin Weigele:
> Am Mittwoch, 2. März 2011, um 13:35:06 schrieben Sie:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 2011/3/2 Martin Weigele <martin at weigele.de>
> > 
> > > Within a fresh ubuntu 10.10, Python 2.6.6, easy_install successfully
> > > installed by wget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py,
> > > python ez_setup.py
> > > 
> > > [snip]
> > > 
> > > > error: Setup script exited with error: command 'gcc' failed with exit
> > > > status 1
> > 
> > You should install gcc
> > 
> > Cheers,
> 
> Thanks Gil! Sorry I installed too many variations of virtual machines :-)
> so I forgot to install gcc this time. However, as tested before, it does
> not help, see now the correct failing trace with gcc installed, Ubuntu
> 10.10, python 2.6.5 . The problem may be that recent Ubuntu distributions
sorry 10.04, python 2.6.5 but same with 10.10, 2.6.6
> do not support different versions of Python, and it seems things do not
> really work out with the most recent versions of Python. So a workaround
> may be to install everything for 2.4 manually  - quite annoying though.
> 


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