Hi, I'm having an Ubuntu host, but want to (experimentally) install some modules, which are newer than the Ubuntu ones (distros lag always a little behind and some tools need newer versions.)
What would be a clean way to do this? I want to be sure, that any 'special hacks' on my host are cleanly separated from the default installation. I thought about installing some newer packets for example under /opt/newpymods # or any other name and change the python path such, that modules will first be searched there and only then in the default path. Is this a viable approach? How exactly would I have to set PYTHONPATH? I'm asking, as I had some problems installing a new version of coherence. What I did: ##### download a newer version of Coherence cd /downloads svn co https://coherence.beebits.net/svn/tags/Coherence-0.6.2 Coherence #### create a new directory for all 'newer' python modules mkdir -p /opt/newpymod export PYTHONPATH=/opt/newpymod python setup.py install --prefix /opt/newpymod ### this fails, so I'll adapt PYTHONPATH export PYTHONPATH=/opt/newpymod/lib/python2.5/site-packages mkdir -p /opt/newpymod/lib/python2.5/site-packages ### now I get quite some error messages > running install > running bdist_egg > running egg_info > writing requirements to Coherence.egg-info/requires.txt > writing Coherence.egg-info/PKG-INFO > writing top-level names to Coherence.egg-info/top_level.txt > writing dependency_links to Coherence.egg-info/dependency_links.txt > writing entry points to Coherence.egg-info/entry_points.txt > package init file 'misc/__init__.py' not found (or not a regular file) > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "setup.py", line 124, in <module> > setup(**setup_args) > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/distutils/core.py", line 151, in setup > . . . thanks in advance for any help -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
