On Oct 8, 2006, at 2:45 PM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: > > > > > On Sun, October 8, 2006 4:12 pm, Iain Day wrote: >> Hi, >> >> A quick question about python installed from Fink. I have the >> python24 >> package installed (using the unstable tree on PPC (0.8.1)). This >> installed a /sw/bin/python24 binary. How do I get a /sw/bin/python >> program? I tried installed the python package, but this wanted to >> install python25 etc. I didn't go ahead with this, incase it broke >> things like scipy and matplotlib. >> >> Any thoughts? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Iain >> >> > > The "python" package points to whatever the latest version of python > available in the trees you have turned on--so for 10.4/unstable that's > python25. > > It shouldn't break your scipy-py24 and matplotlib-py24. Fink > allows for > multiple Python versions and modules for each. > > -- > Alexander K. Hansen > (akh) > Fink Documenter >
Iain, here are some possibilities I could think of: I also wanted to keep my /sw/bin/python to point to python24 and was able to do this by first uninstalling the current python package, and then digging up a previously installed deb file with the correct version, using something like the following: sudo dpkg -i /sw/fink/debs/python_2.4.xxx (your desired version, if it exists as a deb file) Alternatively (if you don't have a prior deb file of the 2.4 python), it should also be possible to get the 2.4 version from the binary distribution by sudo apt-get install python (version 2.4 is the current version in the binary tree). Or use sudo dselect to do the same thing. Of course, you could also create an alias; but that's probably not what you want because it doesn't work with scripts that start with #!/ usr/bin/env python. Instead, if none of this suits you, I guess one could prepend a directory like ~/bin to your PATH (before /sw/bin) and put a file ~/bin/python in there which is a symbolic link to /sw/ bin/python24. That's not very pretty, though. Hope this helps, Jens ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
