couchapp MAC installation hints =============================== Andreas Wenk a.wenk@netzmeister-st-pauli.de http://www.netzmeister-st-pauli.de This is a small collection of hints for MAC users who are about to install couchapp and have some problems. I am running an MAC OS X 10.5.6 #1 Problems with easy_install ----------------------------- Actually I had an error message while doing this: $ easy_install couchapp [...] The required version of setuptools (>=0.6c9) is not available, and can't be installed while this script is running. Please install a more recent version first, using 'easy_install -U setuptools'. (Currently using setuptools 0.6c7 (/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python)) error: Setup script exited with 2 To avoid this, you have to install a newer version of the setuptools. Simply type $ sudo easy_install -U setuptools Searching for setuptools Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/setuptools/ Best match: setuptools 0.6c9 Processing setuptools-0.6c9-py2.5.egg setuptools 0.6c9 is already the active version in easy-install.pth Installing easy_install script to /usr/local/bin Installing easy_install-2.5 script to /usr/local/bin Using /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.5.egg Processing dependencies for setuptools After having the newer version and repeating the first cmd, the error still occures. That's because you have to use the path /usr/local/bin $ sudo /usr/local/bin/easy_install couchapp Now everything works fine.