On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 12:01 AM <mchathuran...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm a beginner on this. I was trying to install a new python version which is > 2.7.5. My OS(RHEL6) had already installed version 2.6. so I downloaded the > tar and unzipped it then executed > > ./configure --prefix=/usr \ > --enable-shared \ > --with-system-expat \ > --with-system-ffi \ > --enable-unicode=ucs4 && > make > > afterwards > sudo make install && > sudo chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libpython2.7.so.1.0
Not sure what the point of the chmod is, but whatever. I don't think it's breaking anything. > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/7.4/general/python2.html This is > what I followed and which got me here. > > everything was successfully finished. > > afterwards when I type python in the terminal I get below error: > > python: error while loading shared libraries: libpython2.7.so.1.0: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory What happens if you type "python2.6" or "python2.7"? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
