When installed via easy-install, conf templates are not copied
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IPython |
Incomplete
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I say "sudo easy_install-2.5 ipython" in my vanilla Debian system, and then IPython complains upon first invocation:
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/home/andreas/
WARNING:
Installation error. IPython's directory was not found.
Check the following:
The ipython/IPython directory should be in a directory belonging to your
PYTHONPATH environment variable (that is, it should be in a directory
belonging to sys.path). You can copy it explicitly there or just link to it.
IPython will create a minimal default configuration for you.
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This makes customization pretty hard, especially because of the unhelpful "#intentionally left blank" comment in ipythonrc, which made wonder if this file was now deprecated and the docs hadn't been updated, or..., or...
| Ville M. Vainio (villemvainio) wrote | #1 |
| Brian Granger (ellisonbg) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in ipython: | |
| assignee: | nobody → ellisonbg |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| Brian Granger (ellisonbg) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in ipython: | |
| assignee: | ellisonbg → nobody |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
Ok, there is something wrong with easy_install (IPython directory was not in sys.path; probably some kind of setuptools glitch). You can work around it manually by coping the contents of site-packages/