brew install doesn't work about howdoi

[avelis]

I ran into this issue as well. From what I can tell it just sets up python to run the install. I know there are instructions to run it via pip but would prefer to centralize my installs via Homebrew.

[ EDIT: Running OS X Lion with python 2.7.1 ]

[monfresh]

It worked fine for me. I have python 2.7.3 on Mountain Lion (installed via homebrew a while back).

[gleitz]

Odd. kstenerud/avelis, any idea why the install is failing? (it works for me).

Do you have easy_install installed?

[kstenerud]

I have easy_install installed. I don't know why it's failing since it doesn't output any error messages besides

Please make the appropriate changes for your system and try again.

This is a fairly new system. I haven't installed anything via console besides homebrew and a few brew-installed utils like tree, lame, and poppler. Perhaps there's a dependency that you have installed on your system which isn't installed on a default OSX install?

[kstenerud]

Got it working. Running it with -vd revealed that easy_install couldn't access /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages.

I had to change the permissions to go+w to get things working.

[avelis]

@kstenerud investigations are correct and just in case people stumble here.

$ sudo chmod go+w /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/

Should resolve this issue. To be clear: make sure easy_install is in a happy state before installing the howdoi formula.

[gleitz]

Thanks all! Happy hacking.

[corroded]

Just a heads up, I also ran into this problem and since it looks like a lot of people do, maybe you can put a note in the README about this?

[ashwini7security]

Possibly if you get this error of lxml but chances are very rare :-

gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c src/lxml/lxml.etree.c -o build/temp.linux-i686-2.7/src/lxml/lxml.etree.o

src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:4:20: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory

compilation terminated.

error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

Solution:-

Just install python-lxml - pythonic binding for the libxml2 and libxslt libraries
$ apt-get install python-lxml
Then do
#not from root
$ pip install howdoi

[frankcortes]

Just a note, in my case has been necessary to change the permission of the Library Python Folder recursively:

$ sudo chmod -R go+w /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/

[ApsOps]

This should definitely be in README.