is there a standard way to "install" egg-files under windows ?

[Stef Mientki]

hello,

after 4 months playing around with Python,
and I still have troubles with egg files.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

If I google on "python egg", I get lost of links,
which contains huge pages of information,
and I'm totally scared off.

I've used several methods,
the last one, success with 1 egg file, no success with another egg-file:
- download ez_setup.py and put it in a sub-directory of the Python path
- open an Python IDE
- open the ez_setup.py in the IDE
- dump the egg files in the same directory as ez_setup.py
- set in the IDE, the commandline parameters to the egg-filename (no path)
- run ez_setup.py in the IDE

Can someone tell how to install an egg file in just 1 line ?
Or even better, can there be an icon on the desktop, where I just can drop the egg-file ?

thanks,
Stef Mientki

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

hello,

after 4 months playing around with Python,
and I still have troubles with egg files.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

If I google on "python egg", I get lost of links,
which contains huge pages of information,
and I'm totally scared off.

I've used several methods,
the last one, success with 1 egg file, no success with another egg-file:
- download ez_setup.py and put it in a sub-directory of the Python path
- open an Python IDE
- open the ez_setup.py in the IDE
- dump the egg files in the same directory as ez_setup.py
- set in the IDE, the commandline parameters to the egg-filename (no path)
- run ez_setup.py in the IDE

Can someone tell how to install an egg file in just 1 line ?
Or even better, can there be an icon on the desktop, where I just can
drop the egg-file ?

setuptools - which you install using the ez_setup.py - will install a
script called easy_install. Under unix, this is installed in /usr/bin,
I'm not sure where it is installed under windows - go use a search.

But this script takes an egg-file as argument, and installs it.

So - either open the shell of your choice and type

easy_install <egg>

or maybe you can even use that via drag-n-drop to a desktop-link to that
easy_install-script, as dropping an egg over a program icon should pass
that as first argument.


Diez

 

[Duncan Booth]

setuptools - which you install using the ez_setup.py - will install a
script called easy_install. Under unix, this is installed in /usr/bin,
I'm not sure where it is installed under windows - go use a search.

It puts easy_install.exe (and variations on it) in C:\Python25\Scripts
(replace C:\Python25 with the path to your python installation).

 

[John Nagle]

".egg" files are actually ".zip" files. So you can
rename them to ".zip" and unpack them where they need to go.
This is usually easier than debugging "easy_install".

John Nagle

 

[stef]

".egg" files are actually ".zip" files. So you can
rename them to ".zip" and unpack them where they need to go.
This is usually easier than debugging "easy_install".

John Nagle

thanks guys,

I'm slowly getting the picture.
Now knowing it's a zip file,
and trying several egg-files through easy_install,
I noticed different things,
- sometimes the egg is unzipped and placed in the "site-package" directory
- sometimes it's just copied (unzipped) to the site-package directory.

My first conclusion that egg-installation didn't work sometimes,
has probably to do with version conflicts between the already installed
libs and the new to install libs,
but I guess that's the benefit of open source ;-)

So if that's all, the renaming to .zip might be a less obscure way of
working.

cheers,
Stef Mientki