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installing pylint is a little more complicated then necessary because it doesn’t specify it’s requirements for easy_install and it also doesn’t list download locations for logilab-common and logilab-astng in it’s cheeshop record
in your workingenv:
easy_install pylint
then switch to the tmp directory in your workingenv, and download the two packages you need:
wget ftp://ftp.logilab.fr/pub/astng/logilab-astng-0.16.3.tar.gz
wget ftp://ftp.logilab.fr/pub/common/logilab-common-0.21.1.tar.gz
then unpack them […]

I tried setting up a workingenv for playing with SQLAlchemy today but I ran into a number of problems. First, since I had installed pysqlite2 via Synaptix, easy_install was not finding the package. So I had to uninstall the pysqlite2 that I had installed with Synaptix and then install with easy_setup.
However, […]