[portland] Upgrading from Python-2.4 to -2.5

[Robin Dunn]

Rich Shepard wrote:
> Robin Dunn robin at alldunn.com wrote:
> 
>>>   import dbus_bindings
>>> warning: python-dbus not installed.
>>> warning: python-dbus not installed.
>>> error: dbus failed to load (python-dbus ver. 0.80+ required). Exiting...
> 
>> The same thing. The message means that Python 2.5 is using a binary
>> extension module (dbus_bindings) that was built with Python 2.4.
> 
>   In /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ I have a dbus/ directory containing
> __init__.py                   connection.pyc       gobject_service.pyo
> __init__.pyc                  connection.pyo       lowlevel.py
> __init__.pyo                  dbus_bindings.py     lowlevel.pyc
> _dbus.py                      dbus_bindings.pyc    lowlevel.pyo
> _dbus.pyc                     dbus_bindings.pyo    mainloop/
> _dbus.pyo                     decorators.py        proxies.py
> _expat_introspect_parser.py   decorators.pyc       proxies.pyc
> _expat_introspect_parser.pyc  decorators.pyo       proxies.pyo
> _expat_introspect_parser.pyo  exceptions.py        service.py
> _version.py                   exceptions.pyc       service.pyc
> _version.pyc                  exceptions.pyo       service.pyo
> _version.pyo                  glib.py              types.py
> bus.py                        glib.pyc             types.pyc
> bus.pyc                       glib.pyo             types.pyo
> bus.pyo                       gobject_service.py
> connection.py                 gobject_service.pyc
> 
>   There is no install.py, setup.py, or build.py script. What do I do to
> complete the installation so the system sees, and uses, the python-dbus for
> 2.5 rather than for 2.4?

Get the source from http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus-python/, 
untar it, and run something like "python2.5 setup.py install" like any 
other package.  Or if it isn't using distutils then it will probably use 
the configure; make; make install kind of recipe.

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