I was getting “Python support for SSL and HTTPS is not installed” while trying to use Mercurial on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. I upgraded python to 2.5.2 sudo port upgrade python and mercurial too (1.2.1) sudo port -u upgrade mercurial But that didn’t fix it. I’m glad that I found the solution on Twitter Just do an sudo port install py25-socket-ssl
First you need setuptools/EasyInstall: cd $HOME/opt wget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py mkdir -p $HOME/opt/easyinstall/lib/python2.4/site-packages PYTHONPATH=$HOME/opt/easyinstall/lib/python2.4/site-packages python ez_setup.py --prefix=$HOME/opt/easyinstall Next, trac: cd $HOME/opt wget http://ftp.edgewall.com/pub/trac/trac-0.10.4.tar.gz tar xvzf trac-0.10.4.tar.gz cd trac-0.10.4 python setup.py install --prefix=$HOME/opt/trac cd .. rm -rf trac-0.10.4 cd trac PYTHONPATH=$HOME/opt/easyinstall/lib/python2.4/site-packages/:$HOME/opt/trac/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ bin/trac-admin $HOME/testtracenv initenv Then the xmlrpcplugin: cd $HOME/opt wget -O xmlrpcplugin.zip 'http://trac-hacks.org/changeset/latest/xmlrpcplugin?old_path=/&filename=xmlrpcplugin&format=zip' unzip xmlrpcplugin.zip cd xmlrpcplugin/0.10/ PYTHONPATH=$HOME/opt/easyinstall/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ python setup.py bdist_egg cp dist/*.egg $HOME/testtracenv/plugins cat <<EOF >>$HOME/testtracenv/conf/trac .ini > [components] > tracrpc.* = enabled > EOF And now you can test your installation: ...