Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-programming (49 mails)

[Graham Smith <gqs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 18:22, Derek Fountain wrote:
> > When I run the above command I get the following:-
> > merlin:/home/graham/tmp/pyserial-2.0b2 # python setup.py install
> > error in setup script: invalid distribution option 'classifiers'
> > merlin:/home/graham/tmp/pyserial-2.0b2 #
> >
> > Just wondering what I'm doing wrong or is the setup script at fault, if
> > so how can I manually install the above module?
>
> Nope, you're doing it right. It should be that easy. I've had problems like
> this when installing Python modules. In each case a small tweak to the
> setup script has been required.
>
> I'm not sure why these things go wrong. At first I blamed the packager, but
> after I saw it happen 2 or 3 times I decided that perhaps the installation
> mechanism is just not as robust as, say, Perl's.
>
> Either get your nose into the script and hope it's something obvious, or
> contact the module maintainer.
>

Well to answer my own problem. I bit the bullet and installed SuSE 9.0 today 
and the module installs with out a problem. So it appears that the latter 
version of python did the trick. 

Boy it takes some time to get all the configs up to scratch so that all the 
programs I had previously installed work the same on SuSE 9.0. 

-- 
Regards,

Graham Smith
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