easy_install fails on Ubuntu 6.06

[jpwasp@…]

sudo easy_install Genshi
Password:
Searching for Genshi
Reading http://www.python.org/pypi/Genshi/
Reading http://genshi.edgewall.org/
Reading http://genshi.edgewall.org/wiki/Download
Best match: Genshi 0.4.4-py2.5-macosx10.4
Downloading http://ftp.edgewall.com/pub/genshi/Genshi-0.4.4-py2.5-macosx10.4.zip
Processing Genshi-0.4.4-py2.5-macosx10.4.zip
error: Couldn't find a setup script in /tmp/easy_install-w_FZpJ/Genshi-0.4.4-py2.5-macosx10.4.zip

Of course, I am running Ubuntu 6.06 on Intel x86, and not macosx. My Python version is 2.4.3, not 2.5.

[jpwasp@…]

Workaround:

svn co http://svn.edgewall.org/repos/genshi/tags/0.4.4/ genshi
cd genshi/
sudo ./setup.py install

[cmlenz]

I don't know why setuptools would choose a file with the "macosx10.4" platform specifier for a Linux box. Weird.

[jruigrok]

Is this still a problem on recent Linux systems with up to date easy_install? I cannot replicate this at all.

[Jason Winnebeck <jpwasp@…>]

I happen to be on Ubuntu 8.04 now, which has Python 2.5. To be honest, I'm not sure if I used easy_install or compiled the source from SVN. I'm pretty comfortable with SVN+setup.py from all of the Trac plugins that I've installed that I could see me using either solution.

Does this help anything?

$ sudo easy_install --dry-run genshi
[sudo] password for jpwasp:
Searching for genshi
Best match: Genshi 0.5.1
Processing Genshi-0.5.1-py2.5-linux-i686.egg
Genshi 0.5.1 is already the active version in easy-install.pth

Using /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Genshi-0.5.1-py2.5-linux-i686.egg
Processing dependencies for genshi
Finished processing dependencies for genshi

How does easy_install find the packages to get? I looked at the version of the wiki when I filed this ticket, and I noticed compared to the download page that exists now there was no linux eggs. Well, it's easier to point to it -- wiki:Download@35. It's interesting to note the commit comment, which mentions OSX download: "Fix Python version on OS X download (#188)"