Resolve installation error "Installation of pycrypto-2.6.1.tar.gz failed!" on Ubuntu
Problem
The installation of Site Controller 1.2 fails on some ubuntu flavours with belows error. It is caused by an error of the package python-setuptools
Error message
Installing pycrypto-2.6.1.tar.gz ...
Installation of pycrypto-2.6.1.tar.gz failed! Check install.log for details.Solution
Purge the setuptools package from your host.
Remove the package
vagrant@sitecontroller:~/SiteController-install$ sudo apt-get purge -f python-setuptools Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: python-setuptools* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 43 not upgraded. After this operation, 530 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 44238 files and directories currently installed.) Removing python-setuptools (20.7.0-1) ...Start the setup again, the installation will succeed now.
vagrant@sitecontroller:~/SiteController-install$ sudo ./setup.sh Checking python version ... Checking mosquitto version ... OS type is Ubuntu ... Installing python libraries ... ... Checking python module pyftpdlib, version 1.4.0 ... not installed. Installing pycrypto-2.6.1.tar.gz ...