What does this install error mean?

Martin Geisler mg at lazybytes.net
Fri Jan 15 19:08:01 CST 2010


Clint Olsen <clint.olsen at gmail.com> writes:

> python setup.py  install --install-base="/home/colsen"
> --install-platbase="/home/colsen/lib/python2.6/site-packages/i686"  --force
> running install
> error: install-base or install-platbase supplied, but installation scheme is
> incomplete
> make: *** [install-home-bin] Error 1

Well, I don't know about those flags, but I normally use
--home=$HOME/opt or --prefix=/something.

> I spent a fair bit of time fighting the installer for 1.3.1 because I
> have two simultaneous Linux versions I need to support. I couldn't
> find another way to get the two builds to co-exist.

Mercurial is actually super easy to install: do 'make local' and you'll
get a self-contained installation right where you unpacked the source.
You can then symlink the 'hg' script into a directory in your PATH.

-- 
Martin Geisler

VIFF (Virtual Ideal Functionality Framework) brings easy and efficient
SMPC (Secure Multiparty Computation) to Python. See: http://viff.dk/.
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