On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:15 AM, roys2005 <roys2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the information. So, one option is to build Python > from source code to be able to install "/where/ever/..." > > I still wonder why there is no distribution package for *ix that > contains binaries/libraries that can be installed "/where/ever/..."
There probably isn't, because there's no need to. Distro packages on Linux are generally designed to play nicely with the rest of the packages in the repository, rather than handle every possible configuration change you might want to do; if you want full flexibility, it's usually pretty easy to just grab the source and build (this is distinctly different from Windows, where it's assumed that most people don't know how to build from source, and Mac OS, where you have to actively jump through hoops just to get a C compiler). On a Debian-derived system, you should be able to use "sudo apt-get build-dep python" (or python3) to get the libraries etc you need, and then either "apt-get source python" or "hg clone http://hg.python.org/cpython"; to get the source (the former will get you the source for the system Python, the latter will get you the absolute latest source code for all branches - you might have to pick which branch to use, rather than using 'default'). On Red Hat systems, I'm sure there's an equally easy way to gather the build dependencies, and it'll probably be in 'man yum'. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
