On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Kent Tenney <kten...@gmail.com> wrote: > In a docutils svn checkout. > > [docutils/trunk/docutils]$ python setup.py install --root /tmp > OK > > [docutils/trunk/docutils]$ python setup.py install_data --root /tmp > > distutils.errors.DistutilsFileError: > could not delete > '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/docutils/parsers/rst/include/README.txt': > Permission denied
Well, do you have writing permision in that directory ? Generally, you need admin priviledges to write anything in /usr/local, and tmp is writable by anyone, David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
