Trac won't install on CentOS

[hm2k]

I've been trying for a long time now to install Trac on CentOS and I'm now convinced that it just won't install.

First I tried it on CentOS 4 which failed to install and resulted in this bug report: ​http://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/9595

I finally upgraded the system from CentOS 4 to CentOS 5 which was for the soul purpose of installing Trac and caused a three headed monster of it's own, which has since been resolved.

Now I'm on CentOS 5 I've decided to go ahead and try to install Trac again, here's what's happening:

[root@vps112 /]# easy_install Trac==0.12
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/easy_install", line 5, in ?
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
ImportError: No module named pkg_resources

I've tried reporting this to the mailing list, but as I didn't receive a response within the first 10 hours, I can only assume that this is not a simple issue.

I've been fairly persistent over this, but now I'm convinced that Trac simply won't install on CentOS and I have nothing else to try.

What do you suggest? Is it time to just give up?

[Remy Blank]

This is an InstallationIssue, so the MailingList was the right place to ask your question.

The traceback you show is not generated by Trac, but by easy_install, which is part of setuptools. You should start by making sure setuptools is installed correctly.

[hm2k]

I've slept on it, and here's what I discovered today:

rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
yum install trac

From: ​http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracOnRhel5

I hope someone else finds this useful.

Oh also, advice from Trac on installing setuptools correctly is here: ​http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/setuptools