[Eric] Installing eric on an interl Mac running OS X10.4.1

[Phil Thompson]

On Sunday 12 August 2007 10:25 pm, Mark Thomas wrote:
> Hi Phil
>
> Thanks for advice. Did that and put line in .bash_profile
>
> So changed to eric directory and then did:
>
> python install.py
>
> It looked like everything was installing fine until I got the error:
>
> Installing eric4 ...
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packa
>g es/sitecustomize.pyc'
> Try install as root.
>
>
> So I tried 'sudo python install.py', and got the old error message:
>
> Sorry, please install QScintilla2 and
> it's PyQt4 wrapper.
> Error:
> dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site
>- packages/PyQt4/Qsci.so, 2): Library not loaded: libqscintilla2.2.dylib
> Referenced from:
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packag
>e s/PyQt4/Qsci.so
>   Reason: image not found
>
>
> This just doesn't make sense to me.

Then you need to read up on Unix.

> It seems that if I start up python 
> using sudo it wont import ' Qsci ' from ' PyQt4', but it works fine if I
> don't use sudo. Its now been 6 days that I have been trying to install
> Eric. First I had problems installing QScintilla2, then PyQt4.
>
> Any help gratefully received

In changing .bash_profile you have configured things for you - but not for 
root.

Phil