On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 10:22:22 PM [email protected] wrote: > Secondly, what is wrong with installing two versions of Python? Ubuntu > have 3 versions (Python 3 as well.) Considering that VirtualBox was not > a priority for Mageia 1, I thought that Python 2.6 might come later. I > don't know how many people have made Mageia their principal distro. I had > to reinstall Mandriva 2010.2 long after the CD was released, and Mageia > Beta 2 was available at about the right time. It seemed to be Mandriva > 2010.3. It is O.K. for most of my needs, and I know that the trimmings, > the eye candy, etc. will come later. I have no desire to go back to > Mandriva at the moment. I can wait. It is like somebody who wanted to > know where his whizz-bang graphic effects were. wobo replied that Mga 1 > was not about those. What has been achieved is great. > > Doug Laidlaw.
FWIW, I just installed the Mandriva libpython2.6 RPM. It had no dependencies. Windows under VirtualBox now shows my USB devices as available. Ubuntu still says that the extensions are not installed; there must be a defective installation in that case. Doug Laidlaw.
