Nose unable to find tests in ubuntu

Question

Is there any reason why Nose wouldn\'t be able to find tests in Ubuntu 9.04?

I\'m using nose 0.11.1 with python 2.5.4.
I can run tests only if I explicitly spec

Answer 1

I can confirm that as @david-wolever said, they cannot be executable on Ubuntu. Run

nosetests -vv --collect-only 

to see full details on which files were examined.