[Biopython] Biopython installation failed on Mac OSX 10.6

[Peter Cock]

On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Khader Shameer <skhadar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was trying to install BioPython using fink.
>
> Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Feb 11 2010, 00:51:29)
> [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin
>
> Used the command "fink install biopython-py24"
> Got the following error:
> Failed: no package found for specification 'biopython-py24'!
> Tried 23, 24 and 25 - it is not working.
>
> Any idea why it is not working ?

Something to do with Fink? Also note we don't
support Python 2.3 anymore (and Python 2.4 is
on its last few releases as a supported version
for Biopython).

Apple provides python 2.5 (32bit) and python
2.6 (64bit) on Snow Leopard. I actually use
python 2.6 on the Mac specifically because it
is 64bit and can cope with more memory.

As Vincent and our documentation suggests,
try just installing from source. You'll need to
install Apple's XCode tools first, and it seems
to help if you tick the optional older SDKs as well.

Peter