"version 'python25' is invalid!" error on leopard 10.5.4

[malrost]

Please bear with me -- I just got my first Mac ever yesterday. It's been a few years since I used FreeBSD, and am habituated to Ubuntu. Anyway of course the first thing I wanted to do was install my favorite bittorrent client, Deluge. Apparently on a Leopard machine in order to do this you need to install X11, xcode tools, and MacPorts (which has its own bug & workaround) first.

I think I've got it. Now getting back to the Deluge install instructions, for Mac the main page reads as follows:

OS X

OS X port is provided by the good folks over at Mac Ports

Once Mac Ports is installed, you then install Deluge by simply:
sudo port selfupdate
sudo port install python_select
sudo python_select python25
sudo port install deluge

Yet I'm running into this curious error on the third step.

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~(me)$ sudo python_select python25
version "python25" is invalid!

Any suggestions? I really don't know what to make of this, and the other Leopard install errors don't seem to be related to this one.

[oriain]

This may end up being a stupid question. Do you have python25 installed? Python is a dependency for Deluge on Macports, but if you haven't tried installing Deluge then maybe python25 is not installed. You can see what ports you have installed by typing

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port installed

My installation shows python25 @2.5.2_5+darwin_9 (active). If it doesn't show, you can install it via

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sudo port install python25 @2.5.2_5+darwin+9

[matt25]

Same here, just signed up to notify the webmaster to update the install instructions for OS X

The version of python is python25-apple

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sudo python_select python25-apple