On 1 mar, 06:22, Ray Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been trying to install Mailman, which requires a newer version > of the Python language compiler (p-code generator?)
It's actually the whole thing : (byte-code) compiler, virtual machine, and stdlib. > than the one I > currently have on my linux webserver/gateway box. > > It's running a ClarkConnect 2.01 package based on Red Hat 7.2 linux. > > I downloaded the zipped tarball (Python-2.4.4.tgz), ran gunzip, then > un-tarred it in /usr/local. Then (logged in as root) from > /usr/local/Python-2.4.4 I ran the configure script which appeared to > run properly. At least there were no error messages that I > saw. Then I attempted to run "make install" and ended up with an > error "make *** Error 1". It was right at the "libinstall" section > of the make, so I did some googling and came up with the following command: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python-2.4.4]# make libinstall inclinstall > > After thrashing for about 5 minutes, I got basically the same message: > Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.4/zipfile.py ... > make: *** [libinstall] Error 1 Nothing else between these two lines ? > I dunno if this is relevant, but I have Python 2.2.2 in the > /usr/Python-2.2.2 directory. Do I have to blow this away in order to > install the newer distro? I don't know your distrib, but it may depend on this specific python version. <wild-guess> You may want to specify the --prefix before running configure, and use make altinstall instead of make install. </wild-guess> > Or do I need to install the new one in/usr > instead of /usr/local? The old one is in /usr/local ? If so, it may not be part of your linux distro. FWIW, you should perhaps post the same question on your linux distro's mailing list. > Although I'm a retired programmer (mainframes), I'm still learning > this linux stuff. I guess that makes me a noob...I hope you'll take > that into consideration. We're all newbies one way or another !-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
