<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi,<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I am trying to build Python 2.6.1 (upgrade) on Ubuntu 8.10 in preparation for a class next week. When I try to build it from the source files I run into two problems.<br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1. The first (resolved) was:<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules: bsddb185 sunaudiodev</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I was able to reslove this by using a patch "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: -webkit-monospace; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">python2.6-disable-old-modules.patch<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; ">"</span></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2. The second and currently un-resolvable issue is that the build fails to link in tkinter. I can't quite figure this one out, since I thought that this was part of Python.<br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'">*** WARNING: renaming "_tkinter" since importing it failed: libtk8.5.so.0:</font></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'">cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><br></font></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'">Failed to build these modules:</font></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'">_tkinter</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><br></font></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'">running build_scripts</font></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'">arana@arana-linux:~/Desktop/Python-2.6.1$ </font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Is there anyone out there that has figured out how to get this build to finish? I've kinda run out of tricks!<br></div><div><br></div><div>Arana</div><div><br></div></body></html>