From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 27 01:01:36 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9FFB106566B for ; Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:01:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glarkin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail1.sourcehosting.net (mail1.sourcehosting.net [74.205.51.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A12CC8FC14 for ; Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:01:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 68-189-245-235.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com ([68.189.245.235] helo=cube.entropy.prv) by mail1.sourcehosting.net with esmtp (Exim 4.73 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Qx6fX-000Ihg-6e; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:22:44 -0400 Received: from v104.entropy.prv (v104.entropy.prv [192.168.1.104]) by cube.entropy.prv (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8159D51F8572; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:22:58 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4E5838E2.407@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:22:58 -0400 From: Greg Larkin Organization: The FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.20) Gecko/20110804 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.12 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: doug@safeport.com References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 OpenPGP: id=1C940290 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 68.189.245.235 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: glarkin@FreeBSD.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on mail1.sourcehosting.net X-Spam-Level: *** X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_PBL, RCVD_IN_RP_RNBL, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL, RDNS_DYNAMIC, TVD_RCVD_IP autolearn=no version=3.3.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mail1.sourcehosting.net) Cc: doug , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installing Python Packages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: glarkin@FreeBSD.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:01:36 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/26/11 8:07 PM, doug wrote: > I am teaching myself python and have 2.6 installed. What is the proper > way to install py26-setuptools? As 2.7 is the default it appears that I > can neither use pkg_add nor build from the ports tree. > > I can download the source and the 2.6 egg. It appears that I need to > configure the egg for FreeBSD. Is that correct? Hi Doug, You can do this easily by using the ports tree. First, add the following to your /etc/make.conf (create the file if necessary): PYTHON_DEFAULT_VERSION=python2.6 Next, do this: cd /usr/ports/devel/py-setuptools && make install clean You should be all set, and any other Python port that you install will use the Python 2.6 installation, assuming you installed it from the ports tree. Hope that helps, Greg - -- Greg Larkin http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve http://www.sourcehosting.net/ - Ready. Set. Code. http://twitter.com/cpucycle/ - Follow you, follow me -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk5YOOIACgkQ0sRouByUApBG4ACgmgHUk1RhOzADvpgt8FaTOSSf OioAn0k/PSJ6KlUrhy/rXFSJAiniHEeY =29ZS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----