How to tell easy_install that a package is already installed

I am not sure if this is the right forum to ask this. If it is not, could someone pleas point me to a more appropriate newsgroup. I am attempting to install dap.plugins.netcdf using easy_install on HP-UX 11. As a user, I do not have access to root so have followed the easy_install recommendation

Re: How to tell easy_install that a package is already installed

Charles Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am not sure if this is the right forum to ask this. If it is not, could someone pleas point me to a more appropriate newsgroup. You want the distutils SIG mailing list for Python. Setuptools is an extension of Python's standard distutils.