install Python-2.4.4 from source (parallel to existing Python-2.6)

[S. Dornseifer]

Simon wrote:
> Christian Heimes wrote:
>> Simon schrieb:
>>> Christian Heimes wrote:
>>>> Simon wrote:
>>>>> I installed Python-2.4.4.tar.bz2 from python.org, using gcc-4.3 
>>>>> (within
>>>>> openSUSE 11.1 x86_64) via 'make altinstall'.
>>>>>
>>>>> First, I tried to configure with the following flags:
>>>>> --prefix=/opt/python-24 --enable-framework --with-pydebug
>>>>> This provoked an error during compilation via make (sorry, the list 
>>>>> was
>>>>> so long, but I will post it, if it helps).
>>>> --enable-framework is for Mac OS X only.
>>>>
>>>>> Second, configured again without any flags. The installation by 'make
>>>>> altinstall' to /usr/local was a success. Python2.6 seams unaffected,
>>>>> too. So, I got my parallel installation.
>>>> You have chosen the correct and canonical way to install a parallel
>>>> installation of Python.
>>>>
>>>>> However, I cannot import modules like Tkinter or readline within
>>>>> python2.4.
>>>> You must install the development library of tk, readline, zlib and
>>>> libbz2 prior to configure && make.
>>>>
>>>> Try this on your box:
>>>>
>>>> zypper install gcc make autoconf automake libtool zlib-devel
>>>> readline-devel tk-devel tcl-devel sqlite2-devel libbz2-devel
>>>> libopenssl-devel
>>>>
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, I got the following errors, while compiling via make.
>>> Please, see attached text file for details about everything I did from
>>> installing the missing packages via zypper until make.
>>
>> zypper should have installed all necessary dependencies, including a
>> whole bunch of X11 headers. Something seems to be wrong on your system
>> or SuSE's package dependencies.
>> I know why I dislike SuSE. :) Although I started my Linux career 12
>> years ago with SuSE I prefer Debian based systems since Woody came out
>> in 2002. :)
>>
>>> X11 says:
>>> Program 'X11' is present in package 'xorg-x11', which is installed on
>>> your system.
>>
>> zypper search X11 | grep devel
>> ...
>> zypper install xorg-x11-devel
>>
>> That should (hopefully) do the trick. On a Debian based systems it's
>> much easier to install all Python dependencies with "apt-get build-dep
>> python2.5"
>>
>> To quote SuSE: "Have a lot of fun ..."
>>
>> Und viel Glück!
>>
>> Christian
>>
> 
> Danke :)
> 
> On Monday, I will be able to tell if it worked out, or if I have to try 
> a new strategy, e.g. to convince the admin about (K)ubuntu.

Problem is solved, thanks again :)