Terry, Zachary... thank you for the quick reply. I believe I resolved my issue by adding the "--nodeps" option when I installed Python using the rpm package. The command line I used was...
# rpm -i --nodeps python-2.7.5-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm Using that command line, the Python libraries seemed to install correctly in my /usr/lib directory, bypassing any of these unnecessary dependencies. Thanks again. -----Original Message----- From: Python-list [mailto:python-list-bounces+mark.manarski=bcnepa....@python.org] On Behalf Of Terry Reedy Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2015 11:29 AM To: python-list@python.org Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Installing Python 2.7.5-1 on AIX 6.1 On 8/26/2015 10:35 AM, Zachary Ware wrote: > Hi Mark, > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Manarski, Mark > <mark.manar...@highmark.com> wrote: >> I have downloaded the “python-2.7.5-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm” package from >> the IBM Linux ToolBox site. >> >> When I try to install the python rpm package, it fails because it’s >> looking for (7) dependencies listed below. The dependencies listed >> do seem to exist on the server, and I have also successfully >> installed the openssl-0.9.8zg package on the server. >> >> Has anyone successfully installed Python 2.7 on AIX, and if so, did >> you need to remediate any of these dependencies? > > I have absolutely no experience with AIX. However, I can tell you > that none of the 'dependencies' listed below are absolutely necessary. > >> libcrypto.a(libcrypto.so.0.9.8) is needed by python-2.7.5-1 > > This is used by the hashlib module (and possibly _ssl; I'm not sure). > >> libexpat.a(libexpat.so.1) is needed by python-2.7.5-1 > > This is used in the xml package. > >> libgdbm.a(libgdbm.so.3) is needed by python-2.7.5-1 > > Used in the dbm package. > >> libreadline.a(libreadline.so.6) is needed by python-2.7.5-1 > > Used in the REPL and readline module. > >> libssl.a(libssl.so.0.9.8) is needed by python-2.7.5-1 > > Used in _ssl. > >> libtcl8.4.so is needed by python-2.7.5-1 libtk8.4.so is needed by >> python-2.7.5-1 8.4 is more or less obsolete. 8.5 came out 8 years ago and has had many bugs fixed (now at 8.5.18). 8.6 came out 2 years ago and is even better. > Used by Tkinter. If you want to use tkinter, you should, if possible, start with the latest 8.6.0.4 or whatever. > So without those dependencies, those modules won't work, but > everything else will. > > You may have better luck building Python yourself, and you'll get a > much newer Python that way. And up to date dependencies. > We have an AIX buildbot that may be able to teach you a bit from the > logs: > > configure: > http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/PPC64%20AIX%202.7/builds/1237/ > steps/configure/logs/stdio > compile: > http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/PPC64%20AIX%202.7/builds/1237/ > steps/compile/logs/stdio > > Hope this helps, > -- Terry Jan Reedy -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
