Hi, Kevin. Yes. that looks like an interesting error message which might have been caused because Galaxy currently requires a version of Python such as 2.7.8 (2.6+ will work fine) but it will not run under the newest Python v3 releases (eg Python 3.4.1) (You may also have encountered a bug in that error detection code making the error message a little confusing) Which version of Python did you install into the VM? You can check with

python --version

A preconfigured VM used for some recent Galaxy training day workshops might be worth trying - https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2014/TrainingDay/VMs ?

I hope this helps - and yes, this email list is a good place to ask questions about installation.

On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Kevin changk16@byramhills.net wrote:

To Whom It May Concern,

First, my apologizes if this email is sent to the incorrect location for Galaxy suppose. I am only trying to find a solution to a problem I have setting up a local Galaxy instance to use for my project.

Because my computer runs Windows 8 and cannot set up a local Galaxy instance, I am using Oracle VM Virtualbox to run an instance with Linux. I have already downloaded the files for Galaxy and the proper versions of Python. However, when ever I try to enter "$ sh run.sh" in terminal, the following error message appears:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "./scripts/check_python.py", line 16, in check_python

assert sys.version_info[:2] >= ( 2, 6 ) and sys.version_info[:2] <= ( 2, 7 )

AssertionError

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "./scripts/check_python.py", line 24, in <module>

check_python()

File "./scripts/check_python.py", line 18, in check_python

print >>sys.stderr, msg

TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for >>: 'builtin_function_or_method' and '_io.TextIOWrapper'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "./scripts/check_python.py", line 25, in <module>

except StandardError: NameError: name 'StandardError' is not defined

I do not know what to do with this error message, and require help getting around it so that I can start an instance on my computer. Any advice on how to deal with this problem would be much appreciated.

Thank you for taking the time to read this email, Kevin Chang

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