> Apparently when using eggs, the user's home directory must be
> writeable.  In this case the user is apache, a daemon account with
> home dir /var/www, which it can't write.
>
> OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/www/.python-eggs'
>
>
> The directory appears to contain temporary directories for each egg in
> use.  It's not a big deal but it is suprising, and it means one more
> security lockdown you can't do.

It needs to unpack .so files, because the kernel can't load shared
libraries from a Zip file.

Alternativelly you can unpack the .egg files yourself in
/usr/lib/python2.x/site-packages/


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