title: Python easy_install throws chmod-error
body: <p>I'm trying to install Python Fabric on Windows 7 using the guide from <a href="http://www.jonnyreeves.co.uk/2011/08/getting-python-and-fabric-installed-on-windows/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Getting Python and Fabric Installed on Windows</a>.</p>
  
  <p>To install PyCrypto and Fabric, i used easy_install, as recommended in the guide, but both failed, returning an chmod-error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Using c:\python27\lib\site-packages\fabric-1.3.4-py2.7.egg  
  Processing dependencies for fabric  
  Searching for pycrypto&gt;=2.1,!=2.4  
  Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pycrypto/  
  Reading http://pycrypto.sourceforge.net  
  Reading http://www.amk.ca/python/code/crypto  
  Reading http://www.pycrypto.org/  
  Best match: pycrypto 2.5  
  Downloading http://ftp.dlitz.net/pub/dlitz/crypto/pycrypto/pycrypto-2.5.tar.gz  
  Processing pycrypto-2.5.tar.gz  
  Running pycrypto-2.5\setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir   c:\users\birgit\appdata\local\temp\easy_install-nzrlow\pycrypto-2.5\egg-dist-tmp-_pwkm4  
  The command "chmod" is spelled wrong or could not be found.
  
  Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "C:\Python27\Scripts\easy_install-script.py", line 8, in &lt;module&gt; load_entry_point('setuptools==0.6c12dev-r88846', 'console_scripts', 'easy_install')()  
   File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c12dev_r88846-py2.7.egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 1712, in main  
  
   [... lots and lots of lines... (if they are relevant, I'll post them)]
  
   File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 972, in run_command cmd_obj.run()  
   File "setup.py", line 269, in run  
  RuntimeError: chmod error
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I don't know much about this chmod-thing, but I thought there is no chmod in Windows?</p>
  
  <p>How can i get easy_install to actually work? </p>
  
  <p>I postet a similar question <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9131323/problems-installing-python-fabric-on-windows-7">here</a>, where (thanks to @J.F. Sebastian) I found a workaround to install those packages without fabric. But now I do want to know, how to actually solve the problem I'm having with easy_install.</p>