Problems installing Python Fabric on Windows 7

Question

I am trying to install Python Fabric on Windows 7 using the tutorial from Getting Python and Fabric installed on Windows .

What i have done so far:

• Python 2.7 installed in C: \ Python27
• Added Python-Directory and Python / Scripts to Windows system paths
• Installed SetupTools
• MinGW installed
• Added MinGW-Directory to the system path
• Changed by distutils.cfg according to MinGW-Path

It seemed like normal. When I try to install Fabric via easy_install Fabric , it starts to download files, but then I get chmod error .

 Using c:\python27\lib\site-packages\fabric-1.3.4-py2.7.egg Processing dependencies for fabric Searching for pycrypto>=2.1,!=2.4 Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pycrypto/ Reading http://pycrypto.sourceforge.net Reading http://www.amk.ca/python/code/crypto Reading http://www.pycrypto.org/ Best match: pycrypto 2.5 Downloading http://ftp.dlitz.net/pub/dlitz/crypto/pycrypto/pycrypto-2.5.tar.gz Processing pycrypto-2.5.tar.gz Running pycrypto-2.5\setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir c:\users\birgit\appdata\local\temp\easy_install-nzrlow\pycrypto-2.5\egg-dist-tmp-_pwkm4 The command "chmod" is spelled wrong or could not be found. Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Python27\Scripts\easy_install-script.py", line 8, in <module> load_entry_point('setuptools==0.6c12dev-r88846', 'console_scripts', 'easy_install')() File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c12dev_r88846-py2.7.egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 1712, in main ... lots and lots of lines... (if they are relevant, I'll post them) File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 972, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File "setup.py", line 269, in run RuntimeError: chmod error 

Any suggestions to solve the problem?

Answer 1

I just managed to install the fabric on the win7 box using information from different places on the network. It was very annoying, so to save other frustrations, I put together the following list.

• Install pip http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/index.html (it's easy, follow the guide on the website, it goes without problems)
• run pip install fabric from the command line - you will get errors, some things about missing bat files, etc. when installing pycrypto.
• Download the precompiled pycrypto package from http://www.voidspace.org.uk/downloads/ for your version of Python, for example, for version 2.7 this is http://www.voidspace.org.uk/downloads/pycrypto-2.1.0 .win32-py2.7.zip
• pip install fabric starts again from the command line - this time everything looks fine until you try to run the script tag. He will complain about "There is no module named win32api", etc.
• Install this missing win32api from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/ - first select the build version (the latest, possibly), and then again the .exe file for your Python version.

And you're done, the fabric should work fine.

Answer 2

You tried the binary installer from unofficial Windows binaries for Python extension packs: The base distribution may contain Fabric .

Answer 3

If you are using virtualenv, you need to add one point to Petr Kochansky’s answer: when creating virtualenv, let him access the system packages so that he can see pycrypto. By default this prohibits.

These steps worked for me:

• Install pycrpyto binary file from http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/modules.shtml#pycrypto .

• Create a virtual env that can access system packages. For instance:

  c:\Python27\Scripts\virtualenv.exe --system-site-packages c:\Proj\virtualenv

• pip install fabric

Answer 4

1. Create a virtual disk (usually I put everything on the desktop)

2. Download the pycrypto binary code (appropriate for your installed version and python architecture - no python3 support at the moment) - http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/modules.shtml

3. Go to the easy_install executable file (in the Lib \ site-packages section) in the virtualenv folder that you created and run pycrypto install - 'easy_install C: \ path \ to \ the \ download \ pycrypto-2.6.win-amd64 - py2.7.exe

4.Activate virtualenv and 'pip install fabric'