Dan, Thanks for the information. So, one option is to build Python from source code to be able to install "/where/ever/..."
I still wonder why there is no distribution package for *ix that contains binaries/libraries that can be installed "/where/ever/..." Or, may be there is - I just don't know - but I want to know. - Koushik On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 11:51:06 PM UTC-4, Dan Stromberg wrote: > > Back when I was a sysadmin, I would install CPython to a few different > > NFS filesystems for hundreds of machines to use (more than one > > filesystem because we had about 5 *ix variants - you probably only > > need 1). It's just a matter of "./configure --prefix=/where/ever && > > make && make install" once you have the build dependencies. > > > > It worked fine, but if you symlink you get into trouble because Python > > can't find it's default module path where it expects; symlinking can > > require a wrapper that sets an environment variable - I believe it was > > $PYTHONPATH. > > > > Perhaps it would be appropriate to ask: Why are you wondering if it works? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
