Kifield fails easy_install

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Hi Dave, Kaspar and all,

I’m trying kifield installation with no luck.
In first place, the " Couldn’t find a setup script in /home/pedro/kicad/kifield-0.1.6/kifield" showed, so I copied setup.cfg adn setup.py to the kifield folder.

Now, I get these messages. I think I’m overlooking some stupid step, but I can’t find it.

Thanks in advance.

pedro@Masli5:~/kicad/kifield-0.1.6$ sudo easy_install kifield
[sudo] password for pedro:
Processing kifield
Writing /home/pedro/kicad/kifield-0.1.6/kifield/setup.cfg
Running setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /home/pedro/kicad/kifield-0.1.6/kifield/egg-dist-tmp-E4r9Nl
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/easy_install”, line 9, in
load_entry_point(‘setuptools==3.3’, ‘console_scripts’, ‘easy_install’)()
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py”, line 1963, in main
with_ei_usage(lambda:
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py”, line 1950, in with_ei_usage
return f()
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py”, line 1967, in
distclass=DistributionWithoutHelpCommands, **kw
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py”, line 151, in setup
dist.run_commands()
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py”, line 953, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py”, line 972, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py”, line 381, in run
self.easy_install(spec, not self.no_deps)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py”, line 597, in easy_install
return self.install_item(None, spec, tmpdir, deps, True)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py”, line 646, in install_item
dists = self.install_eggs(spec, download, tmpdir)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py”, line 834, in install_eggs
return self.build_and_install(setup_script, setup_base)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py”, line 1040, in build_and_install
self.run_setup(setup_script, setup_base, args)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py”, line 1025, in run_setup
run_setup(setup_script, args)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/sandbox.py”, line 50, in run_setup
lambda: execfile(
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/sandbox.py”, line 100, in run
return func()
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/sandbox.py”, line 52, in
{‘file’:setup_script, ‘name’:‘main’}
File “setup.py”, line 5, in
import kifield
File “/home/pedro/kicad/kifield-0.1.6/kifield/kifield.py”, line 28, in
from builtins import open
ImportError: No module named builtins
pedro@Masli5:~/kicad/kifield-0.1.6$

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As a new Python user, I’ve been struggling to install python scripts as well. A few hints for the new user would help a lot, instead of expecting everyone to be Python experts. If the out of the box install didn’t work, ask why, otherwise you just dig a deeper hole.

You probably did:

git clone https://github.com/xesscorp/kifield
cd kifield
easy_install kifield

because that seems obvious and intuitive, right? Exactly what I did first time. But in this case it doesn’t work due to a quirk in easy_install. Try this:

git clone https://github.com/xesscorp/kifield
easy_install kifield
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Thanks a lot, Bob!

In fact, I downloaded the .zip file, so the top folder was kifield-0.1.6. And yes, I was running easy_install from inside kifield-0.1.6

After renaming kifield-0.1.6 to kifield and moving one directory up, everything worked.