RESOLVED Re: [Twisted-Python] Installation problems

[Steve Atkins]

> Steve Atkins wrote:
> 
> >I've hit some problems installing twisted 1.3.0 on OS X / python 2.4.
> >
> >The biggie is that I can't find any trace of installation instructions
> >(pre-requisites, installation instructions) anywhere. The tarball README
> >refers to INSTALL, and INSTALL doesn't exist.
> >
> >I attempted a simple "python setup.py build" and the build bombs out
> >after a while with:
> >
> >   running build_scripts
> >   error: file 'bin/manhole' does not exist
> >
> >So... help a newbie out. What am I doing wrong?

It turns out that the SF download site seems to be giving corrupt
tarballs. There was a bunzip error that I missed in unpacking and
a few files were missing or corrupted.

Downloading a clean tarball from twistedmatrix solved everything.

Cheers,
  Steve