Andreas Jung wrote at 2009-3-15 08:48 +0100:
... Zope2 2.12.1a1 version conflict ... ... In addition: setuptools 0.6c7 is pretty old and known to be broken in some ways.
As expected, "setuptool 0.6.c7" was not the problem. After "easy_install -U setuptools", an "easy_install -U Zope2" leads to (zcpython)newdm: easy_install -U Zope2 Searching for Zope2 Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/Zope2/ Reading http://www.zope.org Best match: Zope2 2.12.0.a1 Processing Zope2-2.12.0.a1-py2.5-linux-i686.egg Zope2 2.12.0.a1 is already the active version in easy-install.pth Installing zpasswd script to /home/dieter/ZopeSVN/ZClasses/zcpython/bin Installing mkzeoinstance script to /home/dieter/ZopeSVN/ZClasses/zcpython/bin Installing mkzopeinstance script to /home/dieter/ZopeSVN/ZClasses/zcpython/bin Using /home/dieter/ZopeSVN/ZClasses/zcpython/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Zope2-2.12.0.a1-py2.5-linux-i686.egg Processing dependencies for Zope2 Searching for zope.component==3.5.1 Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/zope.component/ Best match: zope.component 3.5.1 Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/z/zope.component/zope.component-3.5.1... Processing zope.component-3.5.1.tar.gz Running zope.component-3.5.1/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-KtgqcP/zope.component-3.5.1/egg-dist-tmp-3BefxU Adding zope.component 3.5.1 to easy-install.pth file Installed /home/dieter/ZopeSVN/ZClasses/zcpython/lib/python2.5/site-packages/zope.component-3.5.1-py2.5.egg error: Installed distribution zope.component 3.5.1 conflicts with requirement zope.component>=3.6.0 -- Dieter