On Nov 28, 2008, at 5:28 PM, Joe Strout wrote:
Reading http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml
No local packages or download links found for pygame==1.8.0rc3
error: Could not find suitable distribution for
Requirement.parse('pygame==1.8.0rc3')
There seem to be two errors here, the "Couldn't find index page" one
and then the last one, which apparently was fatal, as no further
output appeared after that.
Anybody have a clue what these errors mean, and what I can do about
it?
My own google-fu has turned up a clue, but only a clue:
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2008-January/
008594.html>
...which seems to suggest that this somewhat cryptic error actually
means that we have an incompatible version of Python.
But my Python is 2.5.1, i386, and this sure looks like what the
install script expects (e.g. "Processing pygame-1.8.0rc3-py2.5-
macosx-10.5-i386.egg"). Also, <http://pygame.org/wiki/MacCompile>
says this was "tested with the latest python2.5 framework (included
with OSX 10.5 Leopard)". I don't think this actually IS the latest
version of Python 2.5, but it certainly is what's included with 10.5.
So it seems like this should work.
Curiously, when I launch Python now and "import pygame," it appears to
work -- or at least, no errors appear at that point. So could it be
that the apparent fatal error above is not an error at all?
I'm going to go ahead and start poking at pygame via the tutorials,
but I'm very concerned that something is awry, so any insight on this
installation glitch would be much appreciated.
Best,
- Joe
