[Tutor] Total newbie question

[Peter Otten]

Cameron Simpson wrote:

> On 02Jan2017 17:21, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>I'm trying to install python 4.6 on my Xubuntu 16.04 desktop, and I
>>keep getting scads of errors that culminate with this from make test:
>>
>>running build
>>running build_ext
>>INFO: Can't locate Tcl/Tk libs and/or headers
> 
> You lack the tk development libraries and/or headers. Try (as root):
> 
>   apt-get install tk-dev
> 
>>The necessary bits to build these optional modules were not found:
>>_bz2                  _curses               _curses_panel
>>_dbm                  _gdbm                 _lzma
>>_sqlite3              _ssl                  _tkinter
>>readline              zlib
> 
> You need a bunch of other devleopment libraries too. You can use
> "apt-cache search" to look for package names, eg "apt-cache search
> readline".
> 
> Based on an Ubuntu system also here try installing: libsqlite3-dev,
> libbz2-dev, libncursesw5-dev, libgdbm-dev, lzma-dev, libssl-dev,
> libreadline-dev, zlib1g-dev.

A nice shortcut for this is to install the build dependencies of the Python 
3 used by your distribution:

$ sudo apt-get build-dep python3.x

Replace x with the actual minor version present on your system.


> Then do a clean configure again and see what it says.
> 
> Cheers,
> Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>
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