Re: [Pythoncard-users] Installation on OSX10.4 [Newbie]

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

Victor van Reijswoud wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have just tried to install PythonCard 0.8.2. Followed the  
> instructions on http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/ 
> macosx_tiger_installation.html.
>
> installation of Python and wxPython seem to go as described.  
> PythonCard, however does not installs in:
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
> python2.3/site-packages/PythonCard/
>
> While it was expected to install in 2.4.
>
> Python seems to work though.
>
> What can I best do?
>   
I haven't got quite that far yet (and having been a PC user until 
recently, I am still somewhat confused by the complex way things are 
stored on Mac), but I suspect the problem may arise from this part of 
the instructions ....

(the context is installing Python2.4, then wxPython and then PythonCard)

> Installing PythonCard
>
> The PythonCard-0.8.2.tar.gz file you downloaded should automatically 
> be decompressed by Stuffit; if the file isn't already decompressed, 
> then double-click the PythonCard-0.8.2.tar.gz file. You should now 
> have a PythonCard-0.8.2 directory on your desktop. Open the Terminal 
> application and do a cd to that directory and then run the setup.py 
> script using the 2.3 Python you just installed. The sudo command will 
> prompt you for your password.
The second last sentence should, I think, say " ...using the 2.4 Python 
you just installed".

For me, simply typing the "sudo python  ..." command that follows would 
indeed use the system default 2.3 Python - and hence install it in the 
wrong Framework directory.

You may be able to simply do

sudo /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/bin/python2.4 
setup.py install

but note I haven't yet tried it, and could easily be wrong, since I 
don't fully understand this complexity.

There must be a recommended way to get a newly installed version (e.g. 
2.4) to be more easily used






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