Need python 2.6 in Suse 11.4

DawthLasu · May 27, 2011, 11:54am

Hello again,

I had accidently added the packman repo for 11.2, not a good idea seeing as I’m running 11.4, ha ha, silly mistakes we make. Thanks for the tips all

martin_helm · May 27, 2011, 12:20pm

DawthLasu wrote:

>
> Hello again,
>
> I had accidently added the packman repo for 11.2, not a good idea
> seeing as I’m running 11.4, ha ha, silly mistakes we make. Thanks for
> the tips all
>
I suspected something like that, glad you solved it

pierreth · May 28, 2011, 7:12am

Me too. I am unable to install Python 2.6 from the source. I have this error:

Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules:
_bsddb             bsddb185           dl              
imageop            sunaudiodev                        
To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the module's name.


Failed to build these modules:
_curses_panel                                         

running build_scripts

I have ncurses-devel-32bit in Yast but no 64 version and I am on OpenSuse 11.4.

Here are the repositories I have for Packman:

Index of /pub/mirrors/packman/suse/openSUSE_11.4/
Index of /suse/openSUSE_11.4/Essentials/
Index of /suse/openSUSE_11.4/Multimedia/

Where do you get the ncurses-devel?

martin_helm · May 28, 2011, 2:22pm

pierreth wrote:

>
> Me too. I am unable to install Python 2.6 from the source. I have this
> error:
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules:
> _bsddb bsddb185 dl
> imageop sunaudiodev
> To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the
> module’s name.
>
>
> Failed to build these modules:
> _curses_panel
>
> running build_scripts
>
> --------------------
>
No it did NOT fail, you succeeded.
It just tells you that some outdated modules where not built.
Let me ask a question, what would you use sunaudio or bsddb185 for? I cannot
even imagine what you would use it for if you can make this bits compile.
_curses_panel compiles on nearly no operating system known on this planet.

Just run now “make altinstall” as root.
The executable is then python2.6 if you want the 2.6 version to run.

captaincapacitor · January 6, 2012, 6:57am

I got around the panel.h problem by using /usr/include/ncurses/panel.h but I’m not sure that’s the correct way to do it.

In any case, trying to run python2.6 fails because it can’t find modules, even using the process as described (make altinstall).

I get the following:

Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>:<exec_prefix>]
Python 2.6.7 (r267:88850, Jan 6 2012, 00:45:23)
[GCC 4.6.2] on linux3
Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/etc/pythonstart”, line 7, in <module>
import readline
ImportError: No module named readline
>>>

also trying import select, and any other module fails. I have ncurses-devel installed