Installing Python on Solaris 9

Solaris Boy solarisboy007 at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 19 17:34:08 EDT 2003


martin at v.loewis.de (Martin v. Löwis) wrote in message news:<m3isr2a28j.fsf at mira.informatik.hu-berlin.de>...
> solarisboy007 at yahoo.com (Solaris Boy) writes:
> 
> > I set the environment variables and compiled the stuff. 
> > 
> > Python was installed in /usr/local/Python-2.2.3/python. 
> 
> Can you report how exactly you have 'installed' python? In particular,
> did this involve invoking 'make install'?

Yes make install invoked this.
> 
> It appears that you did not install Python, but merely built it. If
> you had installed it, the python executable would end up in a 'bin'
> directory.
> 

Yeah you might be right. I did make install again and now python is in
/usr/local/bin. Great Insight..


> > Also How do I quit out of python
> 
> Ctrl-D,

Thanks... I knew this. Just thought any other way is there.
> 
> Regards,
> Martin




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