Re: [Fab-user] installation issues on OS X 10.5.5

[Christian Vest Hansen]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Don Jackson
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I attempted to install fabric on Mac OS X 10.5.5, and here is what happened:
>
> $ cd fab-0.0.9/
> $ ls
> INSTALL LICENSE README TODO fabric.py setup.py
> $ more INSTALL
> INSTALLING FABRIC:
> 1. Make sure you agree to the terms and conditions in LICENSE.
> 2. Make sure you got Python installed, preferably version 2.5 or greater.
> 3. Make sure you got Python Distutils installed (should be part of a normal
> python distro).
> 4. Run as root: python setup.py build install
>
> $ sudo python setup.py build install
> Password:
> running build
(... snip lots of console output ...)
> No eggs found in /tmp/easy_install-0IpWu6/pycrypto-2.0.1/egg-dist-tmp-JKW7pE
> (setup script problem?)
> error: Could not find required distribution pycrypto>=1.9
>
> I worked around this by manually installing pycrypto 2.0.1:
>
> wget
> "http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pycrypto/pycrypto-2.0.1.tar.gz#md5=277aa00f27cfbb08f21063f4beb6de59";
> tar xzf pycrypto-2.0.1.tar.gz
> cd pycrypto-2.0.1
> python setup.py build
> sudo python setup.py install
>
> And then rebuilding fabric.
> It would be nice if fabric built as documented.  Did I do something wrong?

Looks to me like pycrypto did something wrong because it was their
build that broke.

It might be that you could have used macports to install pycrypto as
well if your python distribution is from macports.

> Don
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Venlig hilsen / Kind regards,
Christian Vest Hansen.