Sorry, this is a FreeBSD system 4.8-RELEASE I found another set of documents that say to use the following to install::
python setup.py install but after running it, I still have the same problem. Marshall Marshall Dudley wrote: > I am trying to install python, but am having problems. I did what the > README file said, and it created an executible code in the current > directory as it said it would when I typed "make". It seemed to say to > copy the executable over to the /usr/local directory, which I did. > > If I type ./python in the directory I did the make in I get: > > execonn# ./python > Python 2.4.3 (#1, May 31 2006, 07:50:04) > [GCC 2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD]] on freebsd4 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> > > Which is I believe correct. > > But if I type /usr/local/python I get: > > Python 2.4.3 (#1, May 31 2006, 07:50:04) > [GCC 2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD]] on freebsd4 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> > execonn# /usr/local/python > Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix> > Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix> > Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>] > 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback > Python 2.4.3 (#1, May 31 2006, 07:50:04) > [GCC 2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD]] on freebsd4 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> > > So nothing that tries to use it works. > > Any assistance would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Marshall -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list