[Baypiggies] Python 2.6 build on a Debian box; batteries not included??

Andrew Toulouse andrew at atoulou.se
Thu Apr 29 07:47:39 CEST 2010


Looks like you might not have some build dependencies. Have you tried running "apt-get build-dep python2.6"? As root (or with sudo), of course.

--Andy


On Apr 28, 2010, at 10:36 PM, Tung Wai Yip wrote:

> I'm using Python 2.6 that I downloaded and built on a Debian system. Things are
> working fine for me for a few weeks. Then I notice a problem when I failed to
> import zlib.
> 
>>>> import zlib
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> ImportError: No module named zlib
> 
> I'm so use to having all these Python modules included in the standard build I don't know what to do without them. I dig around more and find that they are suppose to be in a directory
> 
>    /usr/local/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload
> 
> zlib.so is not in that directory. Not only is zlib.so missing, by comparing it with a equivalent directory from a Python 2.5 interpreter that comes with the system, I found that a number of modules are also missing.
> 
>    _hashlib.so
>    _bsddb.so
>    _curses.so
>    _curses_panel.so
>    _sqlite3.so
>    _ssl.so
>    bz2.so
>    dbm.so
>    readline.so
>    rgbimg.so
>    zlib.so
> 
> 
> Yes, even readline is missing! No wonder the interactive interpreter is acting weird.
> 
> I think if I look at the output when I did ./configure I may find out some clue. Well it is several hundred lines long. Some line say yes and some line say no. So I can't really figure out what has went wrong.
> 
> If anyone can give me more pointers it is greatly appreciated.
> 
> Wai Yip
> 
> 
> 
> tungwaiyip at tungwaiyip:~/download/Python-2.6.5$ cat 2010-04-27_configure.log
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> 
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