Re: Broken Python 2.6 installation on Ubuntu Linux 8.04

2010-01-25 Thread John Ladasky
On Jan 24, 3:52 pm, Christian Heimes wrote: > By the way you mustn't install your own Python with "make install", use > "make altinstall"! Your /usr/local/bin/python binary masks the original > python command in /usr/bin. You should remove all /usr/local/bin/py* > binaries that do not end with 2.

Re: Broken Python 2.6 installation on Ubuntu Linux 8.04

2010-01-24 Thread John Ladasky
Thanks, Benjamin, I am getting a handle on this. I've written my own Python modules before, and have installed them using distutils. So I know that procedure. I just downloaded the Numpy 1.4.0 tarball, and I succeeded in installing it. A program I wrote which depends on numpy ran successfully f

Re: Broken Python 2.6 installation on Ubuntu Linux 8.04

2010-01-24 Thread Christian Heimes
Benjamin Kaplan wrote: > Extensions written in C must be recompiled for every version of > Python. Since you're using a version of Python not available through > the package manager, your packages are also not available through > that. You'll have to download the sources for those and compile them

Re: Broken Python 2.6 installation on Ubuntu Linux 8.04

2010-01-24 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:53 PM, John Ladasky wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I've posted this same question over on ubuntuforums.org, so I'm trying > to get help in all of the logical places. > > I'm running Ubuntu Linux 8.04 (Hardy) on a fairly new x86 box, with > two hard disks in a software RAID