[Qgis-user] Any errors when installing plugins under XP ?

[Martin Dobias]

2008/10/28 Borys Jurgiel <borys at wolf.most.org.pl>:
> Tuesday 21 of October 2008 22:06:47 Tara Athan napisał(a):
>> I am using a QGIS 1.0 windows build on XP.
>> I am trying to install the Geoprocessor plugin. I get the error message
>> Python error
>>
>> An error has occured while executing Python code:
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "C:/Program
>> Files/QGIS-Dev/./python/plugins\plugin_installer\installer_gui.py", line
>> 202, in requestFinished
>>     un.extract(tmpPath, pluginDir) # final extract.
>>   File "C:/Program
>> Files/QGIS-Dev/./python/plugins\plugin_installer\unzip.py", line 29, in
>> extract
>>     os.mkdir(dir)
>> WindowsError: [Error 3] The system cannot find the path specified:
>> u'C:/Documents and Settings/Tara/.qgis/python/plugins'
>
> Another words, it seems Pluigin Installer can't create missing directories
> (python/plugins). Has anybody else experienced such error? Unfortunatelly I
> can't replicate it, though I'm doing what only crosses my mind ;) The
> Installer always creates missing directories.

... maybe you need to call os.makedirs() instead of os.mkdir() as it
has to create first "python" and then "plugins" directory?

Martin