Re: [pygame] RPG Quest System

[Casey Duncan <casey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 3, 2007, at 10:55 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote:
[..]
> I downloaded the files from the above address, but something seems a
> little kooky to me.  When I ran setup.py, I got this:
>
> michael@camille trunk $ ./setup.py
> ./setup.py: line 1: from: command not found
> ./setup.py: line 2: try:: command not found
> ./setup.py: line 4: except:: command not found
> ./setup.py: line 5: pass: command not found
> ./setup.py: line 13: data: command not found
> ./setup.py: line 14: *.txt,: command not found
> ./setup.py: line 15: data/*,: No such file or directory
> ./setup.py: line 16: ]: command not found
> ./setup.py: line 18: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> ./setup.py: line 18: `for d in glob.glob('data/*'):'
>
> Why would it trip over the 'from' keyword?  I opened setup.py up in  
> vim
> and from is syntactically coloured, so it should be a valid keyword.
> I'm running Gentoo Linux.  I'm going to try remerging python....

I think you tried to execute setup.py directly (your shell will  
assume it is a shell script).

try:

python setup.py install

instead. Note you may need to become root first--use su or sudo

-Casey