[albatross-users] Re: Install in a shell account

[Ben Golding]

On Monday, Sep 16, 2002, at 02:27 Australia/Melbourne, Bill Bell wrote:

> I'm just starting out with Albatross, and just returning to a variant 
> of Unix from an
> absence of several years.
>
> Your documentation seems quite excellent. Since it mentions your wish 
> to receive
> notifications of failures of the installation software I offer the 
> following (which you
> have probably seen before).
>
> [wbell at vex.net:albatross-1.00] $ python setup.py install
> running install
> running build
> running build_py
> creating build
> creating build/lib
> creating build/lib/albatross
> copying albatross/__init__.py -> build/lib/albatross
> copying albatross/apacheapp.py -> build/lib/albatross
> copying albatross/app.py -> build/lib/albatross
> copying albatross/cgiapp.py -> build/lib/albatross
> copying albatross/context.py -> build/lib/albatross
> copying albatross/pidfile.py -> build/lib/albatross
> copying albatross/randompage.py -> build/lib/albatross
> copying albatross/session.py -> build/lib/albatross
> copying albatross/sessionfile.py -> build/lib/albatross
> copying albatross/simpleserver.py -> build/lib/albatross
> copying albatross/tags.py -> build/lib/albatross
> copying albatross/template.py -> build/lib/albatross
> running build_scripts
> creating build/scripts
> copying and adjusting session-server/al-session-daemon -> build/scripts
> running install_lib
> creating /usr/lib/python2.1/site-packages/albatross
> error: could not create '/usr/lib/python2.1/site-packages/albatross': 
> Permission
>  denied
>
> Best of luck with your product. I'm itching to get started using it.

This looks like it's a simple permissions problem: you probably need to 
install
albatross as root (or a user who has access to 
/usr/lib/python2.1/site-packages).
Try that and you should have more success.

BTW, the mailing list for albatross is 
"albatross-users at object-craft.com.au".

	Ben.