I'm trying to install Python Fabric on Windows 7 using the guide from Getting Python and Fabric Installed on Windows.
To install PyCrypto and Fabric, i used easy_install, as recommended in the guide, but both failed, returning an chmod-error:
Using c:\python27\lib\site-packages\fabric-1.3.4-py2.7.egg
Processing dependencies for fabric
Searching for pycrypto>=2.1,!=2.4
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pycrypto/
Reading http://pycrypto.sourceforge.net
Reading http://www.amk.ca/python/code/crypto
Reading http://www.pycrypto.org/
Best match: pycrypto 2.5
Downloading http://ftp.dlitz.net/pub/dlitz/crypto/pycrypto/pycrypto-2.5.tar.gz
Processing pycrypto-2.5.tar.gz
Running pycrypto-2.5\setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir c:\users\birgit\appdata\local\temp\easy_install-nzrlow\pycrypto-2.5\egg-dist-tmp-_pwkm4
The command "chmod" is spelled wrong or could not be found.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python27\Scripts\easy_install-script.py", line 8, in <module> load_entry_point('setuptools==0.6c12dev-r88846', 'console_scripts', 'easy_install')()
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c12dev_r88846-py2.7.egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 1712, in main
[... lots and lots of lines... (if they are relevant, I'll post them)]
File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 972, in run_command cmd_obj.run()
File "setup.py", line 269, in run
RuntimeError: chmod error
I don't know much about this chmod-thing, but I thought there is no chmod in Windows?
How can i get easy_install to actually work?
I postet a similar question here, where (thanks to @J.F. Sebastian) I found a workaround to install those packages without fabric. But now I do want to know, how to actually solve the problem I'm having with easy_install.
Log in as the administrator of your machine. chmod refers to permissions for accessing directories, and in this case, I have a feeling python is complaining about Windows 7's UAC (user account control). Creating directories in C:\ requires elevated permissions in Windows.