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 ---------------------------------------------------------