I'm trying to install lxml, but I can't figure out the installation instructions. Here:
http://codespeak.net/lxml/installation.html it says: 1) Get the easy_install tool. Ok, I went to the easy_install website, downloaded, and installed it. The last two lines of the output during installation said this: Installing easy_install script to /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/ Versions/2.6/bin Installing easy_install-2.6 script to /Library/Frameworks/ Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin 2) ...run the following as super-user (or administrator): easy_install lxml On MS Windows, the above will install the binary builds that we provide. If there is no binary build of the latest release yet, please search PyPI for the last release that has them and pass that version to easy_install like this: easy_install lxml==2.2.2 On Linux (and most other well-behaved operating systems), easy_install will manage to build the source distribution as long as libxml2 and libxslt are properly installed, including development packages, i.e. header files, etc. Use your package management tool to look for packages like libxml2-dev or libxslt-devel if the build fails, and make sure they are installed. On MacOS-X, use the following to build the source distribution, and make sure you have a working Internet connection, as this will download libxml2 and libxslt in order to build them: STATIC_DEPS=true easy_install lxml ----------- My os is mac os x 10.4.11. But this: STATIC_DEPS=true easy_install lxml is not a valid command: $ sudo STATIC_DEPS=true easy_install lxml Password: sudo: STATIC_DEPS=true: command not found In any case, if I do this: $ sudo easy_install lxml sudo: easy_install: command not found In other words, when I installed easy_install it did not add anything to my PATH which points to the installation directory mentioned during installation: Installing easy_install script to /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/ Versions/2.6/bin Ok, so I need to use the full path to the easy_install program (which is not mentioned ANYWHERE in the installation instructions), i.e. /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin/easy_install ...but this still isn't going to work: $ sudo STATIC_DEPS=true /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/ 2.6/bin/easy_install lxml Password: sudo: STATIC_DEPS=true: command not found So what the heck is going on?? Attention developers: you may be one of the best programmers in the world, but if you can't convey how to use your software to the average user, then you are the equivalent of one of the worst programmers on the planet. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
