I'm new to the list (although I've been using 2.0x for a while now).

I'm trying to install 2.1b5 on a RedHat 7.3 system, and having no luck. Some pertinent info:

RedHat 7.3 i386 Comes with python 1.5.2 installed also installed python2 (python 2.2) Have qmail installed in place of sendmail (although sendmail rpm is in place)

The error I'm getting is one I have seen mention of before in the archives:

Compiling /home/mailman/Mailman/versions.py ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "bin/update", line 44, in ? import paths File "bin/paths.py", line 55, in ? import japanese ImportError: No module named japanese

The solution was supposed to have to do with setting the permissions pythonlib and its contents, I believe. I fiddled around trying to make sure that was being done, but noticed that pythonlib was empty.

That ends up being the actual problem I'm having. The packages which are supposed to be in pythonlib are not put there. The reason is buried back in the earlier part of the installation (and I don't have the output to hand at the moment). In short, the misc/Makefile.in (where the packages are to be installed and the permissons set correctly) is unable to recognize my python installation.

At first I was leaving things as they installed on my machine, with python 1.5.2 in the path as "python" and using the --with-python directive to point to "python2". When I worked out what was going wrong I mv'd python out of the way and put a link to "python2" from "python" and tried again, but it had the same effect (ie it was unable to recognize the python 2.2 installation). After that I put python 1.5.2 back where it belonged and tried the installation without the --with-python, and that had the same results.

What I recall is that it was looking for a particular file (a config file of some sort) in a directory that does exist. The file is not there, although a lot of other python packages and files are.

Things to consider:

1. The failure did not halt the install, although it did make it impossible for it to complete. But the relevant messages were *way* back, and probably meaningless to a non-technical person, at a guess.

2. How should mailman recognize this python 2.2 installation as used in RedHat 7.3 (and earlier, at least). Without removing my older python (which there are a lot of apparent dependencies on) and installing from the src, I can't see any other way to get python 2.2 easily installed.

3. Any suggestions what I should try?

Take care,

Liam

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