Ian> There's non-root installation instructions on the setuptools site Ian> (and maybe included in easy_install now?) that will create a full Ian> Python environment in a non-standard location, which would probably Ian> resolve this issue.
Thanks, but that's not what I'm after. On my CentOS 4 server, Python 2.3.x is installed with /usr as the prefix (that is, I use the CentOS-provided version of Python). I install all third-party packages (including my own code) with a prefix of /usr/local/mojam so I can a) avoid polluting the base package and b) install things without becoming root. Accordingly, I dump a mojam.pth file in the system site-packages directory which contains this one line: /usr/local/mojam/lib/python2.3/site-packages That is my only pollution of the default Python installation. I'd like to keep it that way. Can setuptools (be made to) do the job? Thx, Skip _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig