rex wrote:
Thanks for the URL. It would not have occurred to me to read "alt-install-windows" since I don't do Windows, and haven't since 1999.
The name of the file is a quirk of the documentation generation program. The table of contents, though, is quite clear about that chapter's generality. http://docs.python.org/inst/inst.html
This is exceedingly frustrating; it's not new -- numpy/scipy are very important to me, but they have been very difficult to install under SUSE for years.
Yes. I would never inflict SuSE on anyone. I encourage you to try Ubuntu. It is mostly sane and especially so when it comes to Python. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco