[Eric] question about installing from svn

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Samstag, 21. März 2009, Darren Dale wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to install eric from the svn checkout, but it looks like the
> checkout is not structured the way install.py expects it to be:
>
> $ sudo python install.py
> Compiling debugger files.
> Listing eric ...
> Can't list eric
>
> Installing eric4 ...
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'eric/eric4.pth'
> Try install as root.
>
> there is no eric/ directory next to install.py, it looks like everything
> that should be in trunk/eric is in trunk/. Have I missed something?
>
> Thanks,
> Darren

The svn checkout is the development source. You can run it without 
installation by cd into that directory and do python eric4.py. In order to 
get an installation package I am running a shell script, that does some 
cleanup and tweaks to the code.

Regards,
Detlev
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Detlev Offenbach
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