[Pythonmac-SIG] installing wxpython on panther

[Bob Ippolito]

On Oct 15, 2004, at 11:46 AM, altern wrote:

> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>> On Oct 15, 2004, at 6:52 AM, r2d2 wrote:
>>> hi
>>>
>>>>         i am trying to install wxpython on panther. My problem is  
>>>> that
>>>>         because i installed python 3.3.3 and the default installer  
>>>> for
>>>>         wxpython goes into the panther python version instead of the
>>>>         latest version i installed.
>>>>         i downloaded the source but i am not sure what i should do  
>>>> to
>>>>         avoid this problem, i also tried the package manager but  
>>>> seems
>>>>         to just download the .dmg so back to square one.
>>>>         Any suggestions would be apreciated.
>>>>     I suggest just sticking with the stock Python 2.3.0 and using  
>>>> the
>>>>     binary installer. Otherwise you will have to compile everything  
>>>>  from
>>>>     source, and you will certainly run into Version Mismatch  
>>>> problems  at
>>>>     some time or another.
>>>
>>>
>>> i see.
>>> but i need it together with other packages like opengl and they are   
>>> already installed for the 2.3.3 python by the package manager, how  
>>> can  i set the package manager to install the packages to the python  
>>>  version i want?. or maybe it would be easier to get rid of the  
>>> python  2.3.3 i installed? but how to do it?
>>>
>>> Sorry if all this questions are very stupid but i have been using  
>>> all  this on windows and it was dead easy to set up, now i am still  
>>> quite  confused with the unix way to do things.
>> Remove 2.3.3.
>> http://pythonmac.org/wiki/  
>> FAQ#head-45464eef844e198e465151f3b3953a4c15b9eacb
> i removed 2.3.3 (or at least i think i did it by following the  
> instructions on the FAQ). Now i managed to install pyopengl and  
> wxpython but i also need numeric and PIL. I am using the package  
> manager but it doesnt download them properly. I discovered that PIL  
> and numeric went into this folder
>
> /library/frameworks/python.framework/versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/site- 
> packages
>
> while OpenGL and wx are in
>
> /library/python/2.3
>
> then i run python and i can import wx or opengl but not numeric or PIL.
>
> i would have thoght that all packages should be installed in the  
> default directory.

Something broke your site-packages symlink!  It wasn't anything from  
PackageManager, perhaps the wxPython installer is broken?

the site-packages folder should be a symlink to /Library/Python/2.3.   
Move everything from the site-packages folder to /Library/Python/2.3  
and then recreate the symlink.

-bob