Journey's End

Getting pyglet setup in OS X 10.7.2

1. Create a virtual env and activate it
2. hg clone https://code.google.com/p/pyglet/
3. pushd pyglet; python setup.py install
4. popd
5. easy_install  pyobjc==2.3 # the ==2.3 is required as of 2012-01-27, or pyobjc-core will not install
6. python -c "import pyglet" # this step should not fail 

Cheers,
Steve

Broken OS X Installers and How to Fix Them

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A relatively pain free Linux/OS X VNC setup

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Allow only virtual users to login to proftpd

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AuthOrder mod_auth_file.c

Cheers,

Steve