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Update OSX Snow Leopard workaround docs.
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$ easy_install -U pymongo
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Mac OS Issues
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Mac OS Snow Leopard Issues
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By default OSX uses `/usr/bin/easy_install` for third party package installs.
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This script is hardcoded to use a version of setuptools that is older than
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the version required by pymongo for python2.7 support. You can work around
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it like this::
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In OSX 10.6.x this script is hardcoded to use a version of setuptools that is
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older than the version required by PyMongo for python2.7 support. You can work
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around it like this::
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$ easy_install -U setuptools
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$ python -m easy_install pymongo
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$ python -m easy_install -U pymongo
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**Xcode 4 Users**: The Python versions shipped with OSX 10.6.x are universal
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binaries. They support i386, PPC, and (in the case of python2.6) x86_64.
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Xcode 4 removed support for PPC. Because of this the distutils version
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shipped with Apple's builds of Python will fail to build the C extensions
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if you have Xcode 4 installed. This issue may also affect some builds of
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Python downloaded from python.org. There is a workaround::
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**Snow Leopard Xcode 4 Users**: The Python versions shipped with OSX 10.6.x
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are universal binaries. They support i386, PPC, and (in the case of python2.6)
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x86_64. Since Xcode 4 removed support for PPC the distutils version shipped
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with Apple's builds of Python will fail to build the C extensions if you have
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Xcode 4 installed. This issue may also affect some builds of Python downloaded
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from python.org. There is a workaround::
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# For Apple-supplied Python2.6 (installed at /usr/bin/python2.6)
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$ env ARCHFLAGS='-arch i386 -arch x86_64' python -m easy_install pymongo

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