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Hi I am very new to python...so please forgive me if this is a silly question...

Having installed python 2.7.3 i wanted to install the package StarCluster which i tried doing via the command:

$ sudo easy_install StarCluster

but this led to errors when installing the dependent package pycrypto so tried separately to install that by using the command:

$ easy_install pycrypto

but get the following error message....Am I missing something that I need to do?

Searching for pycrypto
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pycrypto/
Reading http://pycrypto.sourceforge.net
Reading http://www.pycrypto.org/
Reading http://www.amk.ca/python/code/crypto
Best match: pycrypto 2.6
Downloading http://ftp.dlitz.net/pub/dlitz/crypto/pycrypto/pycrypto-2.6.tar.gz
Processing pycrypto-2.6.tar.gz
Running pycrypto-2.6/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /var/folders/N3/N3c0k2wGFciTmmsVNCCRE++++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-udIVh6/pycrypto-2.6/egg-dist-tmp-K6hQbK
warning: GMP or MPIR library not found; Not building Crypto.PublicKey._fastmath.
/usr/libexec/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin10/4.2.1/as: assembler (/usr/bin/../libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/as or /usr/bin/../local/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/as) for architecture ppc not installed
Installed assemblers are:
/usr/bin/../libexec/gcc/darwin/x86_64/as for architecture x86_64
/usr/bin/../libexec/gcc/darwin/i386/as for architecture i386
src/MD2.c:147: fatal error: error writing to -: Broken pipe
compilation terminated.
lipo: can't open input file: /var/folders/N3/N3c0k2wGFciTmmsVNCCRE++++TI/-Tmp-//ccyyE9rh.out (No such file or directory)
error: Setup script exited with error: command 'gcc-4.2' failed with exit status 1

thanks

HLM

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  • It looks like you're on OSX. Do you know if you have XCode installed? The out of the box OS X doesn't have a lot of the compilers and other installer goodness. – Rachel Sanders Nov 28 '12 at 22:46
  • I do have XCode installed but its Version 4.0.2 do I need a newer version? – h.l.m Nov 28 '12 at 22:55

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EDIT: Follow the instructions here to use 4.2 instead of 4.1 as the version of gcc.

Try his:

sudo apt-get install python-pip

pip is a python package manager: pip=pip installs packages. Then,

sudo pip install StarCluster

Then you can start python and import starcluster:

python
import starcluster

You can do the same with pycrypto:

sudo pip install pycrypto
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