Installation problem

It's probably some bug in quickly — the setup.py generated is dedicated to be run by dpkg-buildpackage which provides --root flag.
You have to provide --root=/ option for it's to be installed correctly.

Thanks for reply.

Unfortunately that's not work:

sudo python setup.py --root
usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
   or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
   or: setup.py --help-commands
   or: setup.py cmd --help

error: option --root not recognized

I googled a lot and didn't find any information how to install Parcel Tracker from source. Only useful thing I got is installing from torkvemada repo (sudo add-apt-repository ppa:torkvemada/torkvemada) with very old version and Russian Post tracking don't working there.

Maybe someone can write short man for noobs ?

setup.py install --root=/

The latest version in my repository is built 1-2 days ago.

Russian post tracking isn't working anymore since Russian Post has added captcha on their site. As I don't want to be a captcha-breaker, I'll not fix it until they add any useful public API or remove the captcha.

In repo now I see Version: 12.10.

Unfortunately still didn't:

sudo ./setup.py install --root=/
running install
running build
running build_py
running build_scripts
running build_i18n
intltool-update -p -g parcel-tracker
running build_icons
running build_help
running install_lib
running install_scripts
changing mode of /usr/local/bin/parcel-tracker to 775
running install_data
running install_egg_info
Removing /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/parcel_tracker-13.06.2.egg-info
Writing /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/parcel_tracker-13.06.2.egg-info
("ERROR: Can't rename", '//usr/local/share/applications/parcel-tracker.desktop', ':', OSError(17, 'File exists'))

PS Уважаемый Всеволод спасибо за вашу работу, очень полезная и нужная софтина. По капчу и API можете прочитать http://habrahabr.ru/post/164903/. API и его реализация гуглится по http://voh.russianpost.ru:8080/niips-operationhistory-web/OperationHistory?wsdl

You have to remove the already existing file /usr/local/share/applications/parcel-tracker.desktop before installation — it's fistutils problem.

Latest built is done for Ubuntu 13.04 only. If you have earlier version you may consider to upgrade :)

The captcha itself is not a problem , the problem is that I DON'T want to break it. API seems to be working (earlier it was required to sign a contract with Russian Post and get an API key, which of course isn't suitable for opensource application) so I'll implement it (practically only in a ~3 weeks).

I prefer LTS Ubuntu distros.

I just downloaded last 13.06.5

sudo ./setup.py install --root=/
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
running install
running build
running build_py
running build_scripts
running build_i18n
intltool-update -p -g parcel-tracker
running build_icons
running build_help
running install_lib
running install_scripts
changing mode of /usr/local/bin/parcel-tracker to 775
running install_data
running install_egg_info
Removing /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/parcel_tracker-13.06.5.egg-info
Writing /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/parcel_tracker-13.06.5.egg-info
("ERROR: Can't rename", '//usr/local/share/applications/parcel-tracker.desktop', ':', OSError(17, 'File exists'))

Please pay attention at double slash in //usr/local/share/applications/parcel-tracker.desktop' if it matter.

Then

sudo rm //usr/local/share/applications/parcel-tracker.desktop

and again

sudo ./setup.py install --root=/

Removing /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/parcel_tracker-13.06.5.egg-info
Writing /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/parcel_tracker-13.06.5.egg-info
("ERROR: Can't rename", '//usr/local/share/applications/parcel-tracker.desktop', ':', OSError(17, 'File exists'))

I'll try it at clean after install distro and let you know.