How do I work around this problem creating a virtualenv environment with a custom-build Python?
- by Daryl Spitzer
I need to run some code on a Linux machine with Python 2.3.4
pre-installed. I'm not on the sudoers list for that machine, so I
built Python 2.6.4 into (a subdirectory in) my home directory. Then I
attempted to use virtualenv (for the first time), but got:
$ Python-2.6.4/python virtualenv/virtualenv.py ENV
New python executable in ENV/bin/python
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
Installing setuptools.........
Complete output from command /apps/users/dspitzer/ENV/bin/python -c "#!python
\"\"\"Bootstrap setuptoo...
" /apps/users/dspitzer/virtualen...6.egg:
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 67, in <module>
ImportError: No module named md5
----------------------------------------
...Installing setuptools...done.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "virtualenv/virtualenv.py", line 1488, in <module>
main()
File "virtualenv/virtualenv.py", line 529, in main
use_distribute=options.use_distribute)
File "virtualenv/virtualenv.py", line 619, in create_environment
install_setuptools(py_executable, unzip=unzip_setuptools)
File "virtualenv/virtualenv.py", line 361, in install_setuptools
_install_req(py_executable, unzip)
File "virtualenv/virtualenv.py", line 337, in _install_req
cwd=cwd)
File "virtualenv/virtualenv.py", line 590, in call_subprocess
% (cmd_desc, proc.returncode))
OSError: Command /apps/users/dspitzer/ENV/bin/python -c "#!python
\"\"\"Bootstrap setuptoo...
" /apps/users/dspitzer/virtualen...6.egg failed with error code 1
Should I be setting PYTHONHOME to some value? (I intentionally named
my ENV "ENV" for lack of a better name.)
Not knowing if I can ignore those errors, I tried installing nose
(0.11.1) into my ENV:
$ cd nose-0.11.1/
$ ls
AUTHORS doc/ lgpl.txt nose.egg-info/ selftest.py*
bin/ examples/ MANIFEST.in nosetests.1 setup.cfg
build/ functional_tests/ NEWS PKG-INFO setup.py
CHANGELOG install-rpm.sh* nose/ README.txt unit_tests/
$ ~/ENV/bin/python setup.py install
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 1, in <module>
from nose import __version__ as VERSION
File "/apps/users/dspitzer/nose-0.11.1/nose/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
from nose.core import collector, main, run, run_exit, runmodule
File "/apps/users/dspitzer/nose-0.11.1/nose/core.py", line 3, in <module>
from __future__ import generators
ImportError: No module named __future__
Any advice?
