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Sphinx-quickstart doesn't work

I am trying to install sphinx on a remote machine.

Since I don't have an access to the root, I did this:

$bash

$mkdir -p ~/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages

$export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:~/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages

$export PATH=$PATH::~/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages

$easy_install -U --prefix=$HOME/local Sphinx

But apparently, $easy_install doesn't build sphinx-quickstart; when I type 

$sphinx-quickstart

I get the following message:

bash: sphinx-quickstart: command not found

I tried 

find $HOME -name sphinx-quickstart

and no result was found. However, I can import sphinx inside python:

$python

And then

>>import sphinx

works. Any idea why sphinx-quickstart doesn't work?

Solution

  • I found the solution in this webpage:

    User (root/sudo free) installation of Python modules.

    In section 3. Python 2.6+ he mentioned that the command line commands are in 

    ~/local/bin

    Although I had put ~/local/lib/python2.7/siste-packages in the path, the ~/local/bin directory was not in the path. So all I did

    $export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:~/local/bin

    and now it works.

    I don't know why find $HOME -name sphinx-quickstart did not find sphinx-quickstart