On Mon, 21 Sep 2020, 16:42 Matthias Koeppe, <matthiaskoe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Try installing python3.8-distutils. > indeed. it confusingly installs python3-distutils instead, but the latter has distutils for all python3.x for 5<x<9 this works for me. > On Monday, September 21, 2020 at 8:35:00 AM UTC-7 Sébastien Labbé wrote: > >> >> > > >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> > > Checking whether SageMath should install SPKG python3... >>> > > checking whether any of sqlite libpng bzip2 xz libffi is installed >>> as or will be installed as SPKG... no >>> > > checking for python3 >= 3.7, < 3.9 with modules sqlite3, ctypes, >>> math, hashlib, crypt, readline, socket, zlib, distutils.core... >>> > > checking ... whether /usr/bin/python3.8 is good... no, the version >>> is in the supported range, and the modules can be imported, but distutils >>> cannot build a C extension >>> > > checking ... whether /usr/bin/python3 is good... no, Python 3.6.9 is >>> too old >>> > >>> > try >>> > https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/30053 >>> > which bans 3.6. >>> >> >> Actually, the above is obtained with the branch #30053. Otherwise, system >> python 3.6 is chosen. >> >> >>> >>> you might need to >>> >>> apt install python3-distutils >>> >> >> As I wrote, this is was I did. It says it is already the most recent >> version (3.6.9-1~18.04) which is installed, which seems to mean that it is >> distutils for system python 3.6 not 3.8. >> >> >>> >>> and then >>> >>> ./configure PYTHON3=/usr/bin/python3.8 >>> >> >> I can try that, but I think it will not work since "distutils cannot >> build a C extension" in my system python 3.8. >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/3534f6be-b7e2-422a-9cf2-d1cc59c8d1ccn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/3534f6be-b7e2-422a-9cf2-d1cc59c8d1ccn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAAWYfq2zZzfPB84J9b4R19tTFUrSf%2BC5-H%3DY_y9HxVEUX0TP5w%40mail.gmail.com.
