Installation Problem - missing setup.py file

[Skantha]

I downloaded the package file (PDFgetX3-Software Package for Python 2.7) from www.nouvant.com.

According to the readme file I have installed PythonXY in my Windows 7.0 system and then tried to run the command:

python setup.py install

But then I got this error:

python: can't open file 'setup.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory

it seems like the setup.py file is missing.

Does anybody has this problem? If so then how can we install the package in Windows 7 system?

Thanks,

Skantha

 

[Pavol Juhas]

Hi Skantha,

PDFgetX3 is distributed as an egg package archive, which does not
include the setup.py script. Please follow the installation
instructions from http://www.diffpy.org/doc/pdfgetx3/install.html -
in short you need to run

easy_install diffpy.pdfgetx-VERSION-py2.7.egg

instead of the standard "python setup.py install" command.

Hope this helps,

Pavol


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