On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 06:18:40PM -0800, American Citizen wrote: > ARRGH! My system is using python 3.13.5 and I still cannot build. > > I just checked using the alternatives command for "python3" > > does sage math v10.8 using simple "python" and thinks that this will > automatically refer to python12 ??? > > my python refers to 2.7.18 > > perhaps this is the problem???
once again: the immediate problem is in the broken urllib in your
python3. This prevents ./configure from running correctly.
(error reporting could be better, but, well, I don't know how you
managed to get a python3 without urllib)
I tried running OpenSUSE Leap 15.6 in a container, and
zypper install python3
has installed python 3.6.15
The following 5 NEW packages are going to be installed:
libexpat1 libopenssl1_1 libpython3_6m1_0 python3 python3-base
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567427c3003b:/ # python3
Python 3.6.15 (default, Dec 21 2025, 21:56:36) [GCC] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import urllib
>>> import urllib.request
>>>
Dima
>
>
> On 1/6/26 18:08, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> > as I wrote in a reply which went to nowhere due to a typo in the address,
> > the immediate problem is in your /bin/python3,.
> > which does not have urllib (or urllib.request, i.e. urllib is too old)
> > installed.
> >
> >
> > On January 6, 2026 8:00:39 PM CST, American Citizen
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> I tried:
> >>
> >> ./configure --with-system-python3=no
> >>
> >> and that still crashes.
> >>
> >> I am starting to wonder if sage v10.8 is incompatible with openSuse Leap
> >> 15.5 and that OS must be abandoned?
> >>
> >> Leap 15.5 is NOT supported by openSuse anymore, so I guess I will have to
> >> upgrade to 16.0
> >>
> >> I have thousands and thousands of programs on my linux machine, so
> >> upgrading is fraught with deep peril.
> >>
> >> Randall
> >>
> >>
> >> On 1/6/26 17:55, American Citizen wrote:
> >>> Hello all:
> >>>
> >>> Well Gemini pegged part of the problem as Sage 10.8 needing Python 3.12
> >>> to run. My openSuse Leap 15.5 is stuck on Python 3.11 which is too old.
> >>>
> >>> I had to install some repositories to get Python up to level 3.12, and
> >>> then I had to go through some antics to get certain files active because
> >>> of this error message
> >>>
> >>> Package 'python312-pip' not found.
> >>> Package 'python312-setuptools' not found.
> >>> Package 'python312-sqlite' not found.
> >>> No provider of 'liblzma-devel' found.
> >>>
> >>> Even after fixing all this and sage configure being happy now with my
> >>> Python 3.12.. I still keep hitting the same error and everything is dead
> >>> in the water.
> >>>
> >>> alas, Sage complains that my python 3.12 is misconfigured... Gemini AI
> >>> doesn't know what it is doing either.
> >>>
> >>> Randall
> >>>
> >>>
>
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