On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Gustavo Narea <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > On my Ubuntu desktop, httplib2 v0.4.0 is installed system-wide because > it's required by many things. However, I need to use v0.6.0 of that > package in my Buildout-powered project. > > But when I run Buildout, I get this error: > ===== > VersionConflict: (httplib2 0.4.0 (/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5), > Requirement.parse('httplib2==0.6.0')) > ===== > > I've hit this problem before and what I had done is to remove the > system-wide install, which I cannot do this time. > > There has to be a way for Buildout to ignore the global install, but I > could not find the answer after reading the documentation. > > Can you please help me?
There isn't currently an option to get buildout to ignore site-packages, although an option to do that is under review. Many of us simply avoid using system Python installs. I personally always have clean Python installs, independent from system Python, that I use for applications. Jim -- Jim Fulton _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
