[PyFeyn] I cannot install the package

[Andy Buckley]

Hi again Rebeca,

Georg (the "other PyFeyn guy") points out to me that this message 
doesn't actually indicate any problem with PyFeyn: it's an issue with 
the installation script for the PyX package that we build upon: this 
seems to have installation problems on Macs that I've never seen on 
Linux (well, I install python-pyx from my system package manager rather 
than using easy-install).

So there's probably nothing that we can do to help, other than to 
suggest manually installing PyX (http://pyx.sourceforge.net/) or using a 
Mac OS X package manager to do that (something like Fink, although this 
may be more trouble than it's worth)

Cheers,
Andy


On 08/06/11 14:06, Andy Buckley wrote:
> On 27/04/11 09:27, Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm trying to install pyFeyn in my computer (Mac OS X 10.6.7) and I get
>> the following error message:
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------
>> Running PyX-0.10/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir
>> /tmp/easy_install-DNzGcZ/PyX-0.10/egg-dist-tmp-oh9bOA
>> error: Setup script exited with error: SandboxViolation:
>> mkdir('/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/share',)
>> {}
>>
>> The package setup script has attempted to modify files on your system
>> that are not within the EasyInstall build area, and has been aborted.
>>
>> This package cannot be safely installed by EasyInstall, and may not
>> support alternate installation locations even if you run its setup
>> script by hand. Please inform the package's author and the EasyInstall
>> maintainers to find out if a fix or workaround is available.
>> ----------------------------------------------------
>>
>> So I'm sending it to you. Is it possible to fix it?
>
> Hi again Rebeca,
>
> How did you try to install pyfeyn? I tested a week ago with the SVN
> trunk (which I think is not very different to the last release) and it
> worked without problems. I can make a new release if that seems likely
> to help... I've not been an active developer for some time, so don't
> know whether something relevant has been fixed in the development copy
> without going into a release.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>


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