[schooltool-dev] alan's bzr problem

[Brian Sutherland]

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 09:40:32PM -0400, Alan Elkner wrote:
> I don't remember as I had to do a number of things to get schooltool
> running on that machine about three months ago.  Assuming that's the
> case, what would you recommend?

setuptools doesn't have a "deinstall" command AFAIK.

So the only real solution is to clean it up manually. I.e. remove the
files setuptools put down. Unfortunately, that's difficult because you
have to intimately know how setuptools installs itself (I don't).

> 
> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Brian Sutherland <jinty at web.de> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 05:53:27PM -0400, Alan Elkner wrote:
> >  > Setting up python-setuptools (0.6c6-1) ...
> >  > pycentral: pycentral pkginstall: already exists:
> >  > /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools.pth
> >  > pycentral pkginstall: already exists:
> >  > /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools.pth
> >  > dpkg: error processing python-setuptools (--configure):
> >  >  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> >
> >  Looks like python-setuptools is trying to install
> >  /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools.pth, which already exists.
> >
> >  Did you once make a manual installation of setuptools as root by-passing
> >  apt?
> >
> >  --
> >  Brian Sutherland
> >
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