Hello: My lab is currently in the process of setting Galaxy up on our server. I have been installing the appropriate tools, but I am having difficulty installing the package_galaxy_utils_1_0. The error message is below. If this is something that is occuring on our end, would you please send instuctions on how to fix it? If I have sent this email to wrong address or you need more information, please let me know. Thank you very much for your help. Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/distribute-0.6.38.tar.gz Extracting in /tmp/tmp3dIIS_ Now working in /tmp/tmp3dIIS_/distribute-0.6.38 Building a Distribute egg in /scratch/tmp-toolshed-mtdKjroZR/galaxy_sequence_utils-1.0.0 Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 248, in <module> scripts = scripts, File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 111, in setup _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs) File "/tmp/tmp3dIIS_/distribute-0.6.38/setuptools/dist.py", line 225, in __init__ _Distribution.__init__(self,attrs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 287, in __init__ self.finalize_options() File "/tmp/tmp3dIIS_/distribute-0.6.38/setuptools/dist.py", line 257, in finalize_options ep.require(installer=self.fetch_build_egg) File "/tmp/tmp3dIIS_/distribute-0.6.38/pkg_resources.py", line 2027, in require working_set.resolve(self.dist.requires(self.extras),env,installer)) File "/tmp/tmp3dIIS_/distribute-0.6.38/pkg_resources.py", line 2237, in requires dm = self._dep_map File "/tmp/tmp3dIIS_/distribute-0.6.38/pkg_resources.py", line 2466, in _dep_map self.__dep_map = self._compute_dependencies() File "/tmp/tmp3dIIS_/distribute-0.6.38/pkg_resources.py", line 2499, in _compute_dependencies common = frozenset(reqs_for_extra(None)) File "/tmp/tmp3dIIS_/distribute-0.6.38/pkg_resources.py", line 2496, in reqs_for_extra if req.marker_fn(override={'extra':extra}): File "/tmp/tmp3dIIS_/distribute-0.6.38/_markerlib/markers.py", line 109, in marker_fn return eval(compiled_marker, environment) File "<environment marker>", line 1, in <module> NameError: name 'sys_platform' is not defined /scratch/tmp-toolshed-mtdKjroZR/galaxy_sequence_utils-1.0.0/distribute-0.6.38-py2.7.egg Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 9, in <module> use_setuptools() File "/scratch/tmp-toolshed-mtdKjroZR/galaxy_sequence_utils-1.0.0/distribute_setup.py", line 152, in use_setuptools return _do_download(version, download_base, to_dir, download_delay) File "/scratch/tmp-toolshed-mtdKjroZR/galaxy_sequence_utils-1.0.0/distribute_setup.py", line 132, in _do_download _build_egg(egg, tarball, to_dir) File "/scratch/tmp-toolshed-mtdKjroZR/galaxy_sequence_utils-1.0.0/distribute_setup.py", line 123, in _build_egg raise IOError('Could not build the egg.') IOError: Could not build the egg. -- Leslie A Herrera Starr Lab Junior Specialist MCB, 139 Briggs Hall University of California, Davis laherrera@ucdavis.edu