[Edu-sig] Python 2.6.1 build problems

[Vern Ceder]

To get a full build of Python 2.6 ( or Python 3, for that matter) you 
need to install the following packages:

libsqlite3-dev libreadline5-dev libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev 
libssl-dev libgdbm-dev tk-dev

This will give you a working IDLE...

Cheers,
Vern

Arana Fireheart wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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.
> 
> 1. The first (resolved) was:
> Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules:  bsddb185 
>  sunaudiodev
> I was able to reslove this by using a patch 
> "python2.6-disable-old-modules.patch"
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> *** WARNING: renaming "_tkinter" since importing it failed: libtk8.5.so.0:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> Failed to build these modules:
> _tkinter
> 
> running build_scripts
> arana at arana-linux:~/Desktop/Python-2.6.1$  
> 
> 
> Is there anyone out there that has figured out how to get this build to 
> finish? I've kinda run out of tricks!
> 
> Arana
> 
> 
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