Can't seem to get it installed either via brew, pip or python setup.py install o...

junkblocker · on Jan 9, 2013

Installs just fine here on OSX 10.8.2

  % uname -a
  Darwin xxx 12.2.1 Darwin Kernel Version 12.2.1: Thu Oct 18 16:32:48 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.20.9~2/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

  % sudo pip install howdoi
  Password:
  Downloading/unpacking howdoi
    Downloading howdoi-0.2.tar.gz
    Running setup.py egg_info for package howdoi

  Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): pyquery in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages (from howdoi)
  Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): lxml>=2.1 in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages (from pyquery->howdoi)
  Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): cssselect in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages (from pyquery->howdoi)
  Installing collected packages: howdoi
    Running setup.py install for howdoi

      Installing howdoi script to /usr/local/bin
  Successfully installed howdoi
  Cleaning up...

Maybe file a bug with what happens when you try?

slajax · on Jan 9, 2013

It works now. Had to run:

  sudo chmod -R go+w /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/

which is noted at the bottom of the readme and I missed it.