Hello. I'm a Python newbie having problems trying to install galaxy on a Mac (PPC) running OSX 10.5.8 and Python 2.5.1. Do I need to upgrade my Python or OSX version? If not, below are the gory details for anyone who wants to help. Arlin ----------------------------- gory details (narrative description followed by transcript) --------------------- I've been through this several times and loaded various packages manually, and it all seems to come down to numpy 1.3.0 and bx-python 0.5.0. I installed more recent versions of these myself (numpy 1.4.1 and bx-python 0.6.0), and verified that they were installed correctly, but Galaxy seems to want specific versions that are not the current versions. I found a binary of numpy 1.3.0 but the installer would not let me install it on the grounds that it requires "System Python 2.5", which is confusing because thats what I thought I had. I haven't found bx-python 0.5.0 anywhere though I suppose I could just build an old release from the source repository. camel12:dev arlin$ uname -a Darwin camel12.umbi.umd.edu 9.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.8.0: Wed Jul 15 16:57:01 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1228.15.4~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh camel12:dev arlin$ python --version Python 2.5.1 camel12:dev arlin$ hg clone http://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-dist (works fine) camel12:dev arlin$ cd galaxy-dist/ camel12:galaxy-dist arlin$ sudo sh setup.sh . . . (lots of messages) Fetched http://eggs.g2.bx.psu.edu/new/pexpect/pexpect-2.4-py2.5.egg Traceback (most recent call last): File "./scripts/fetch_eggs.py", line 31, in <module> c.resolve() # Only fetch eggs required by the config File "/Users/arlin/dev/galaxy-dist/lib/galaxy/eggs/__init__.py", line 284, in resolve egg.resolve() File "/Users/arlin/dev/galaxy-dist/lib/galaxy/eggs/__init__.py", line 172, in resolve r = pkg_resources .working_set.resolve( ( self.distribution.as_requirement(), ), env, self.fetch ) File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/distribute-0.6.10-py2.5.egg/ pkg_resources.py", line 565, in resolve ) pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: bx-python==0.5.0-dev-f74aec067563 ----------------------- end of gory details -------------------------------------- ------- Arlin Stoltzfus (arlin@umd.edu) Fellow, IBBR; Adj. Assoc. Prof., UMCP; Research Biologist, NIST IBBR, 9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, MD tel: 240 314 6208; web: www.molevol.org