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Old 01-01-2010, 07:47 AM   #6
taurnil
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
That file is actually created by a package called setuptools, which is used by these packages. It sounds like your setuptools is broken.
That would seem to be the case, however after going through setuptools and the other python dependencies of calibre; I cannot find any reason why compiling those from source insists on overwriting easy-install.pth. Even watching the compile process it eventually says "adding blah blah" to easy-install.pth.

Installing them from source is pretty straight forward;

Code:
 python setup.py build && python setup.py install
I even tried running setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg as a script file, as described in the documentation with the same results. So either there is some undocumented magic incantation for building/installing from source, or I have found a bug.
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