I got the build working by changing the import line in /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/jcc/__init__.py from import os, sys to import os, sys, _jcc
> That's unexpected. JCC should get installed as an egg. For example, on my > system, its installation dir looks like: > .../lib/python2.6/site-packages/JCC-2.11-py2.6-macosx-10.6-x86_64.egg Hmmm.. I don't have any eggs: $ ls /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/*.egg ls: /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/*.egg: No such file or directory > Are you using setuptools or just distutils ? I followed the directions at http://lucene.apache.org/pylucene/jcc/documentation/install.html, namely $ python setup.py build $ sudo python setup.py install > Do you have a _jcc.so file in your jcc installation tree somewhere ? Yes, at /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/jcc/_jcc.so -- A. Heifets http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~aheifets/