Installing setup tools for python

Question

I'm trying to install setuptools on centos 5.6 for python 2.7.1. The system version is python 2.4

I found a similar question here but the solution still brings up the same error: setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg: line 3: exec: python2.7: not found

Python is located in /usr/bin/python2.7.1

Any ideas?

I don't get your point. Are you trying to install setuptools for python 2.7.1 while you have python 2.4 installed? Then it is obvious you should upgrade python before. — glarrain
– glarrain, Commented Jun 3, 2011 at 0:14

wkl · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-03 00:24:59Z

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Looks like the installer wants to execute python2.7, whereas your binary is called python2.7.1.

Try making a symlink in your /usr/bin/ directory.

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python2.7.1 /usr/bin/python2.7

answered Jun 3, 2011 at 0:24

wkl

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3 Comments

GP89 Over a year ago

Ah thank you! I should have notice that! Now when I run sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg I get the error zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available but in a python interpretor import zlib works just fine

GP89 Over a year ago

Got a different zlib install and recompiled python and got it working. Thanks!

Arnaud Jeansen Over a year ago

I had the same problem on Windows. In C:\ncrdev\Python27, I copied python.exe to python2.7.exe and that fixed it too.

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