Nokia-N900:~# easy_install ssl Searching for ssl Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/ssl/ Reading http://docs.python.org/dev/library/ssl.html Best match: ssl 1.15 Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/ssl/ssl-1.15.tar.gz#md5=81ea8a1175e437b4c769ae65b3290e0c Processing ssl-1.15.tar.gz Running ssl-1.15/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /var/tmp/easy_install-qSV3XC/ssl-1.15/egg-dist-tmp-urze8C looking for /usr/include/openssl/ssl.h looking for /usr/include/krb5.h looking for /usr/kerberos/include/krb5.h error: Setup script exited with error: SandboxViolation: mkdir('/usr/lib/python2.5/test',) {} The package setup script has attempted to modify files on your system that are not within the EasyInstall build area, and has been aborted. This package cannot be safely installed by EasyInstall, and may not support alternate installation locations even if you run its setup script by hand. Please inform the package's author and the EasyInstall maintainers to find out if a fix or workaround is available.