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

[Bill Bell]

Ben,

I _really_ should have mentioned that I was doing this on Win2K (where 
constructions like "/usr/lib/python" haven't much meaning) :o).

Bill

On 17 Sep 2002 at 19:31, Ben Golding wrote:

> 
> 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.