Re: [Pythoncard-users] Cannot install

[Alex T. <al...@tw...>]

Rod wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to install Pythoncard on Mac OS X 10.3.9, I already had 
> wxPython installed and upgraded MacPython to 2.3.2 as requested. 
> However I keep getting the error message below:
>
> error: invalid Python installation: unable to open 
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/config/Makefile 
> (No such file or directory)
>
> MacPython does seem to be installed - indeed I have used it with other 
> tools, and everything is there except the Makefile.
>
> Does anyone know how I could overcome this problem? Should I reinstall 
> MacPython - but I see this is not advised on the MacPython website.

Rod,

I'm not (at all) a Mac expert, so I may be missing something (and 
hopefully the someone who does understand the Mac better will chime in).

When do you get this message ?

(When I installed Pythoncard on Mac, all I did was
  - downloaded the .tar.gz file
 - uncompressed it (by d-click in Finder( to get a .tar file)
 - unpacked it (again by d-click in Finder) (to get a whole PythonCard 
directory)

and either  put that directory inside my Python2.4/Lib/site-packages or 
(more likely) put a pythoncard.pth file inside Python2.4/lib/site-packages
(don't remember which I did, and the Mac is unavailable at the moment).

None of that is really an 'install' that seems likely to lead to an 
error message such as you get - so I would like to know if you get that 
while installing PythonCard or when you try to run a PythonCard app ?

I very much doubt that it is an error directly from PythonCard - there 
is no reference to any Makefile within the PythonCard-0.8.2.tar.gz 
download file for OS X.  I fear that the problem is with your 
re-installation of MacPython; I have vague memories of having seen dire 
warnings about installation problems with MacPython, but don't remember 
what they were (this was before I got a Mac). When I did get the Mac, I 
stuck to the pre-installed Python, until I recently added Python 2.4 - 
but I added it to /Library/Frameworks/...,  not to 
/System/Library/Frameworks/...


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