On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 18:45:35 -0800 "Dj Gilcrease" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 5, 2008 10:24 PM, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sure, there are *lots* of ways the user can screw up the system as > > root. Doing a default python install from source is *not* one of them, > > no matter what it does with those symlinks. If you know of a system > > where things are otherwise, please warn me about it now. > Ubuntu will screw up if you login as root and build a newer python > version then 2.2. You wont be able to use it's GUI package installer > and other issues.
Are you sure? The default Python install prefix is /usr/local. Ubuntu (at least on the admittedly aged system I have here) puts the system python in /usr/bin. So that default python install shouldn't break the system tools, providing they run the right python. For that matter, even on this relatively old Ubuntu, they've got a 2.4 version installed. Of course, once you've got more than one python installed on the system, chances are good that some - and possibly all - of your scripts will break if you run them on the wrong python. But even if the scripts run the default python (and system scripts shouldn't), the above can be fixed by tweaking the environment - and root's environment on my box is right. Thanks, <mike -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com