Or run Debian testing. Why switch distros or even distro flavors if you don't have to? :) Python 2.5 and most of the packages that are needed for Django are fine straight from apt on testing/unstable.
gav Tom Novelli wrote: > Debian Etch is meant to be stable, not up to date (except for security > fixes), so it defaults to Python 2.4. You can install 2.5 but most of > the python-* packages are not available for 2.5 because they were not > deemed stable or didn't build at all. I needed support for Postgres, > LDAP, Oracle and found it was easiest to stick with Python 2.4. If > you really need 2.5, you're probably better off running a leading-edge > distro like Ubuntu or Gentoo. > > Good luck... > Tom > > > On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 12:42 AM, LRP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Folks, >> >> I've been trying for days now to correctly install python2.5 and >> psycop2 on my Debian Etch system so I can work with postgresql8.1, >> django, and web2py. >> >> I've installed python2.5 from the Debian repository and made it the >> default choice. When I call python from the CLI I get Python2.5. >> >> But no matter how I try to install psycop2, I can't get django or >> web2py to recognize it. On django it comes up as refusal to connect to >> postgresql; on web2py it comes up as an error message saying "global >> name psycopg2 is not defined'" >> >> Psycopg2 seems to want to install against python2.4. I've tried >> symlinks from /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages to /usr/lib/2.4/site- >> packages/psycopg2, but that doesn't work; nor have various other >> installation methods that I"ve tried. >> >> Can anyone show me how to correctly install and configure the packages >> I need to run SVN django on Debian Etch and postgresql8.1? Must be >> many others who've confronted the same issues. >> >> Many thanks, >> >> LRP >> > >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
