[tahoe-dev] Installation on Mac

[Mark Berger]

You can try running 'sudo easy_install pip'.

-Mark Berger

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Basil M Kuriakose <basilmon92 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Ill try installing pip. Is it possible to get a installation documentation
> on mac os x? Very detailed and updated?
>
>
> On Wednesday, July 17, 2013, Mark Berger wrote:
>
>> I can confirm that 'python setup.py build' wiill not run on OSX 10.8
>> without sudo. The error message is "error: src/allmydata/_version.py:
>> Permission denied". If this is not what is supposed to happen, then someone
>> should open a ticket.
>>
>> Basil,
>>
>> Do you have pip installed? If so you can run 'pip install
>> allmydata-tahoe' and it will download and install all of the dependencies
>> for you since that seems to be what is causing you trouble. If you don't
>> have pip, you can follow the instructions here to install it:
>> http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html
>>
>> - Mark Berger
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Daira Hopwood <
>> davidsarah at leastauthority.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 14/07/13 21:37, Basil M Kuriakose wrote:
>>> > Please can u guide me how u installed successfully on mac osx?
>>> >
>>> > On Monday, July 15, 2013, Till Steinmetz wrote:
>>> >
>>> >     Well, on my mac with  osx 10.8 the setup won't run without sudo.
>>>
>>> 'python setup.py build' will always run without sudo, unless soemthing
>>> very
>>> strange is going on. You can then use 'bin/tahoe' to run the tahoe
>>> command,
>>> and you can alias or symlink this or put the bin/ directory on the PATH,
>>> if
>>> you just want to type 'tahoe'.
>>>
>>> 'python setup.py install' needs sudo when doing a system-wide
>>> installation
>>> (as opposed to an installation into a virtualenv). Note that
>>> 'python setup.py install' does not install Tahoe-LAFS' dependencies;
>>> you'll
>>> have to do that separately (this is completely standard behaviour for a
>>> 'setup.py' script).
>>>
>>> --
>>> Daira Hopwood ⚥
>>>
>>>
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