> I'm trying to install on the latest Ubuntu (8.04) and the following > extension modules fail: > > _bsddb, _curses, _curse_panel, _hashlib, _sqlite3, _ssl, _tkinter, > bz2, dbm, gdbm, readline, zlib > > All of them except for _tkinter are included in the preinstalled > Python 2.5.2, so I guess the dependencies must be somewhere there. > Does Ubuntu have any non-standard lib dir ?
You need to manually install the -dev packages (through aptitude) before building Python. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list