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9 posts Started 1 year ago by patc890 Latest reply from patc890
Just wondering if anyone has managed to install Mediacore under OS X 10.6.7(or anything close)? I've been trying for a week with no luck. Always get stuck when trying to run
python2.5 setup.py develop
It always errors out with.....
error: Could not find required distribution simplejson
I've tried everything I can think of and ideas offered by others without any luck. So if anyone has any tips on installing under OS X I'd love to hear them.
Otherwise I'm giving up.
Thanks.
Pat.
We all run MediaCore on the latest version of Mac OS X. Just as an FYI you don't need to use Python 2.5 though.
The simple json issue is a bug with OS X see here:
http://mediacore.com/community/topic/cant-install-simplejson-3
Hi, Thanks for replying
Do you mean?
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Actually I just found some docs which indicate that it is a known problem on OS X. The pylons project suggests you do "easy_install -U setuptools" (before you create the virtualenv I think) to update setuptools if necessary.
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I've tried that many times but didn't help.
Pat.
Jeremy,
I tried again, ran the "easy_install -U setuptools" before setting up the virtualenv
and when I try ... python2.5 setup.py develop
I get
/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/distutils/dist.py:264: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'message_extractors'
warnings.warn(msg)
/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/distutils/dist.py:264: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'paster_plugins'
warnings.warn(msg)
running develop
running egg_info
writing requirements to MediaCore.egg-info/requires.txt
writing MediaCore.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing top-level names to MediaCore.egg-info/top_level.txt
writing dependency_links to MediaCore.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
writing entry points to MediaCore.egg-info/entry_points.txt
reading manifest file 'MediaCore.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in'
no previously-included directories found matching 'doc/build'
warning: no previously-included files matching '*.*' found under directory 'closure-library'
warning: no previously-included files matching '*.*' found under directory 'batch-scripts/closure'
warning: no previously-included files matching '*.pyc' found under directory '*'
warning: no previously-included files matching '.*.swp' found under directory '*'
warning: no previously-included files matching '.DS_Store' found under directory '*'
writing manifest file 'MediaCore.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
running build_ext
Creating /opt/mediacore_env/lib/python2.5/site-packages/MediaCore.egg-link (link to .)
Adding MediaCore 0.9.0 to easy-install.pth file
Installed /opt/MediaCore-0.9.0
Processing dependencies for MediaCore==0.9.0
Searching for importlib
Reading http://mediacore.com/files/dependencies/
Best match: importlib 1.0.2
Downloading http://mediacore.com/files/dependencies/importlib-1.0.2.tar.gz
Processing importlib-1.0.2.tar.gz
Running importlib-1.0.2/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-n20PUp/importlib-1.0.2/egg-dist-tmp-d5uTPG
zip_safe flag not set; analyzing archive contents...
Adding importlib 1.0.2 to easy-install.pth file
Installed /opt/mediacore_env/lib/python2.5/site-packages/importlib-1.0.2-py2.5.egg
Searching for simplejson
Link to http://pypi.python.org/simple/simplejson/ ***BLOCKED*** by --allow-hosts
Couldn't retrieve index page for 'simplejson'
Scanning index of all packages (this may take a while)
Link to http://pypi.python.org/simple/ ***BLOCKED*** by --allow-hosts
Best match: simplejson 2.1.3
Downloading http://mediacore.com/files/dependencies/simplejson-2.1.3.tar.gz
Processing simplejson-2.1.3.tar.gz
Running simplejson-2.1.3/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-vfqb6e/simplejson-2.1.3/egg-dist-tmp-Aj0dao
simplejson/_speedups.c: In function ‘encoder_listencode_dict’:
simplejson/_speedups.c:2279: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘Py_SIZE’
No eggs found in /tmp/easy_install-vfqb6e/simplejson-2.1.3/egg-dist-tmp-Aj0dao (setup script problem?)
error: Could not find required distribution simplejson
Did this work on your OS X systems?
Pat
Hi Pat,
The comment you'll want to look at in that thread is the one by Nate: http://mediacore.com/community/topic/cant-install-simplejson-3#post-1823
Basically the problem is this: sometime after I wrote the install docs, macports broke their version of python2.5. The current workaround is to use python2.6 instead, on osx.
Thanks Anthony...I got it going.
hah! I just noticed you're the Pat from that other post!
Glad to hear it's working.
Thought I was gonna stab someone in my office out of pure frustration trying to install Mediacore using the instruction. Then switched to python 2.7, enabled all 4 cores on Macports for processing the builds and installed and launched Mediacore in under 15min. Shocking, please update the install instructions to Python 2.6 or 2.7 to save some poor sap from spending a week struggling to get Mediacore going.
Agree!
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