Installing bottleneck 0.6.0 cause error while referencing to another hard drive than where WinPython is installed

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. I downloaded Bottleneck-0.6.0.tar.gz from PyPi repository 
(https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Bottleneck)
2. I opened the WinPython control panel and added the tar.gz file to the 
Install/Upgrade list. 
3. Press install causes the error:
Unable to install Bottleneck 0.6.0
Error message:
[Error 3] The system cannot find the path specified in: 
u'c:\\users\\maarten\\appdata\\local\\temp\\wppm_ny4fm9\\Bottleneck-0.6.0\\dist\
\*.*'

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Using the same method I was successful installing openpyxl 1.6.2, following the 
description on this forum.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
I am using WinPython-64bit-2.7.4.1 on windows7, 64bit. WinPython is installed 
on my D: drive where I want to use it as portable software

My thoughts:
As you can see, WinPython uses the standard C:\\..\\appdata folder during 
package installs. This surprises me. If this is the way it works, then I am 
fine with it, but I expect some users will have problems with the write access 
to that directory. However, I do not think this is my problem, because openpyxl 
installed successfully.

Other: I am not a computer or python expert, but learning more and more while 
using pandas and numpy/scipy for my research. For pandas, it is useful to have 
bottleneck and openpyxl installed, which I therefore tried. I would therefore 
hope and recommend you consider adding these packages to the main WinPython 
distribution tree?

In the mean time: Thanks for the amazing work on all those great scientific 
python programs! 

Cheers

Original issue reported on code.google.com by meelmaar...@gmail.com on 2 Jun 2013 at 10:25

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The error message is not explicit (that is fixed: 
https://code.google.com/p/winpython/source/detail?r=57f96c1d9e69aceb5c9a65f94f63
90800e46957e). But the fact that it's failing is independent from WinPython 
itself. It may be a missing installation requirement.

Please try the steps mentioned in the link above:
                   "1. Open a WinPython command prompt\n"\
                   "2. Change working directory to the appropriate folder\n"\
                   "3. Type `python setup.py build install`")

Original comment by pierre.raybaut on 10 Aug 2013 at 1:11

• Changed state: Done

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The error message is not explicit (that is fixed: 
https://code.google.com/p/winpython/source/detail?r=57f96c1d9e69aceb5c9a65f94f63
90800e46957e). But the fact that it's failing is independent from WinPython 
itself. It may be a missing installation requirement.

Please try the steps mentioned in the link above:
                   "1. Open a WinPython command prompt\n"\
                   "2. Change working directory to the appropriate folder\n"\
                   "3. Type `python setup.py build install`")

Original comment by pierre.raybaut on 10 Aug 2013 at 1:11