[lxml-dev] easy_install issues

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi,

just in case this is still an issue:

P.F. Hawkins wrote:
> I'm having trouble installing any version of lxml higher than 1.3.3. The error
> says that easy_install can't find a proper version of dateutil, even though I
> have a high enough version of "python-dateutil" installed on this system.

lxml doesn't need dateutil, so this looks like a setuptools problem. The
distutils-sig would be the right place to ask.

Are you sure the package is installed for the correct Python version? - just
in case you have, say, Py 2.4 and 2.5 installed in parallel. Have you tried
reinstalling the "python-dateutil" package?


> I assume that the issue has to do with "dateutil" vs. "python-dateutil", but I'm
> not sure. 

That shouldn't be a problem as it won't change the name of the Python package.

Stefan