Hi all, I just helped a friend install the PIL mpgk from:
http://www.pythonmac.org/packages/py24-fat/ On an OS-X 1-0.4.* Intel Mac. After installing, "import Image" still didn't work, so we went poking into /Library.Frameworks,.....etc, and found that indeed, the PIL dir and PIL.pth has been installed in site-packages, but that neither had read permissions for anyone but the owner, and the owner was set to "localadm", rather than "root" or the name of the user that ran the installer. When we added read permissions for all, it now works fine, but what the heck is going on? By the way, we were not asked for the admin password when running the installer. On my machine (PPC 10.4.7), I notice that PIL is owned by me (the user that installed it), but also has no read perms for anyone but the owner. As I'm the owner, it works for me, but that doesn't seem right. One other difference between the two machines: I think my friend's is set up to authenticate off a Windows Domain controller, which might have something to do with why his got installed by "localadmin", rather than himself. As I look at my site-packages dir, things are a bit messy. Most stuff is owned by me, with a smattering owned by root, but all have a+r perms, except PIL. this stuff is a mixture of packages installed from mpkgs and regular old setup.py install. What's going on? How should this work? I have no idea how, but my thought is that mpkgs should ask for a password, then install as root. Of course with the appropriate read permissions. -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer NOAA/OR&R/HAZMAT (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
