Thanks Brandon,

It is working well!! PyEphem is really cool stuff.

Cheers,

JH

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Brandon Craig Rhodes <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Since I do not see any of my own code in that traceback, I can only
> Google for that error to try to figure out why Distribute would be
> raising it.  The results of my search suggest that the version of
> Distribute you are using, version 0.6.4, is flawed and that you need to
> upgrade to the most recent 0.6.8.
>
> Could you try upgrading distribute with something like:
>
> easy_install -U distribute
>
> and then re-running the PyEphem install to see what happens?
>
> --
> PyEphem 3.7.3.4 Installation error in opensuse 11.1 (x86-64) using
> easy_install
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/487885
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in PyEphem astronomy library for Python: New
>
> Bug description:
> Searching for pyephem
> Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pyephem/
> Reading http://rhodesmill.org/pyephem/
> Best match: pyephem 3.7.3.4
> Downloading
> http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pyephem/pyephem-3.7.3.4.tar.gz
> Processing pyephem-3.7.3.4.tar.gz
> Running pyephem-3.7.3.4/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir
> /tmp/easy_install-fEREW8/pyephem-3.7.3.4/egg-dist-tmp-ZICPGN
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/local/bin/easy_install", line 8, in <module>
>    load_entry_point('distribute==0.6.4', 'console_scripts',
> 'easy_install')()
>  File
> "/usr/local/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/distribute-0.6.4-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
> line 1702, in main
>    with_ei_usage(lambda:
>  File
> "/usr/local/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/distribute-0.6.4-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
> line 1690, in with_ei_usage
>    return f()
>  File
> "/usr/local/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/distribute-0.6.4-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
> line 1706, in <lambda>
>    distclass=DistributionWithoutHelpCommands, **kw
>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/distutils/core.py", line 152, in setup
>    dist.run_commands()
>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 975, in run_commands
>    self.run_command(cmd)
>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 995, in run_command
>    cmd_obj.run()
>  File
> "/usr/local/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/distribute-0.6.4-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
> line 236, in run
>    self.easy_install(spec, not self.no_deps)
>  File
> "/usr/local/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/distribute-0.6.4-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
> line 471, in easy_install
>    return self.install_item(spec, dist.location, tmpdir, deps)
>  File
> "/usr/local/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/distribute-0.6.4-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
> line 501, in install_item
>    dists = self.install_eggs(spec, download, tmpdir)
>  File
> "/usr/local/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/distribute-0.6.4-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
> line 680, in install_eggs
>    return self.build_and_install(setup_script, setup_base)
>  File
> "/usr/local/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/distribute-0.6.4-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
> line 957, in build_and_install
>    self.run_setup(setup_script, setup_base, args)
>  File
> "/usr/local/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/distribute-0.6.4-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
> line 946, in run_setup
>    run_setup(setup_script, args)
>  File
> "/usr/local/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/distribute-0.6.4-py2.6.egg/setuptools/sandbox.py",
> line 29, in run_setup
>    lambda: execfile(
>  File
> "/usr/local/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/distribute-0.6.4-py2.6.egg/setuptools/sandbox.py",
> line 70, in run
>    return func()
>  File
> "/usr/local/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/distribute-0.6.4-py2.6.egg/setuptools/sandbox.py",
> line 31, in <lambda>
>    {'__file__':setup_script, '__name__':'__main__'}
>  File "setup.py", line 57, in <module>
>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/distutils/core.py", line 113, in setup
>    _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
>  File
> "/usr/local/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/distribute-0.6.4-py2.6.egg/setuptools/dist.py",
> line 224, in __init__
>    _Distribution.__init__(self,attrs)
>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 270, in __init__
>    self.finalize_options()
>  File
> "/usr/local/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/distribute-0.6.4-py2.6.egg/setuptools/dist.py",
> line 257, in finalize_options
>    ep.load()(self, ep.name, value)
>  File
> "/usr/local/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/distribute-0.6.4-py2.6.egg/pkg_resources.py",
> line 1922, in load
>    raise ImportError("%r has no %r attribute" % (entry,attr))
> ImportError: <module 'setuptools.dist' from
> '/usr/local/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/distribute-0.6.4-py2.6.egg/setuptools/dist.pyc'>
> has no 'check_packages' attribute
>