[XML-SIG] pyxml install troubles

[Gisbert Amm]

Just guessing, but AFAIK you should untar PyXML.tar.gz, cd into the dir and
do

python setup.py install

Rgeards,
Gisbert Amm
http://web.de/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik Nielsen [mailto:hnielsen at alf.nbi.dk]
> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 1:57 PM
> To: xml-sig at python.org
> Subject: [XML-SIG] pyxml install troubles
> 
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> sorry if this ends up the wrong place, but the README of PyXML 0.8.3
> directs me to this address in case of installation problems, 
> and that is
> exactly what I have run into...
> 
> I'm running Mandrake 9.2RC2 which installs Python 2.3 by rpm. When
> downloading the PyXML.tar.gz package and running
>  python setup.py build
> as root, the install fails with the message
> error: invalid Python installation: unable to open
> /usr/lib/python2.3/config/Makefile (No such file or directory)
> 
> I checked around on my system and 
> "/usr/lib/python2.3/config/" does not
> exist ("/usr/lib/python2.3/" does).
> 
> I'm know very little of python, to tell you the truth I'm really only
> installing PyXML to get xbel running, therefore I haven't 
> tried messing
> around with my Python setup (yet) :)
> 
> Could you please suggest any solution to this problem?
> 
> -- 
>  kind regards
>  Henrik
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