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Pypcap for mac on python 2.6?

How do you end up running pypcap for python 2.6 on a mac? It seems that there hasn't been any new releases since 2.5 or am I just looking in the wrong places?

I seem to be unable to install the 2.5 binary with the following error: You cannot install pcap 1.1 on this volume. pcap requires System Python 2.5 to install.

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Python 2.5 code should run fine unaltered on Python 2.6 (you'll just occasionaly get a DeprecationWarning for features which are changing in Python 3.x).

ChristopheD  2010-03-21 18:43:05
It won't let me install it from the mac binary... I get the following error message: You cannot install pcap 1.1 on this volume. pcap requires System Python 2.5 to install.
Chris  2010-03-21 19:21:55
Ah ok. Try installing the source by downloading the tarball, untarring it, running `python setup.py configure` , `python setup.py build` (and if that succeeds) `sudo python setup.py install` in succession. You'll need Xcode (for gcc and the likes) installed.
ChristopheD  2010-03-21 19:43:53
hmm... running "python setup.py" on it gives error: no commands supplied. I'm kind of new to this.
Chris  2010-03-21 21:04:38
Well you'd need to run `python setup.py configure` first, then `python setup.py build` (and if this succeeds) then `sudo python setup.py install`.
ChristopheD  2010-03-21 21:46:16
Yeah, tried that and got "invalid command configure". Just realized it's config for this package though! Huge thanks :)
Chris  2010-03-21 22:03:51

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