Re: [OT] How can I change Debian's default Python version?

2006-01-05 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Agreed, so I took another Linux box to make sure to not make custom version mistakes. Same here. Yes, there are 2.4-packages of all kind. But there's also a dependency package python telling the whole box that Python is 2.3.5. And when I want to install wxWidgets into Python 2.4, I am

Re: [OT] How can I change Debian's default Python version?

2006-01-05 Thread Franz GEIGER
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: Agreed, so I took another Linux box to make sure to not make custom version mistakes. Same here. Yes, there are 2.4-packages of all kind. But there's also a dependency package python telling the whole box that Python is 2.3.5. And when I want to install wxWidgets

Re: [OT] How can I change Debian's default Python version?

2006-01-05 Thread Robert Kern
Franz GEIGER wrote: Diez B. Roggisch wrote: sudo apt-get install python-wxgtk2.6 Which depends on python2.4 No, sorry, at least not on all my Sarge boxes. I'm told needs python2.3 when I look at its properties from within Synaptic (Dependency Tab): Needs python-wxversion, needs python2.3,

Re: [OT] How can I change Debian's default Python version?

2006-01-05 Thread Nick Craig-Wood
Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As of this time, the Debian wxPython packages are only provided for Python 2.3. I couldn't tell you why. Try looking at the bug list for python-wxgtk2.6. I'm sure there's a bug filed against it asking for a Python 2.4 version. Perhaps the maintainer

Re: [OT] How can I change Debian's default Python version?

2006-01-05 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Nick Craig-Wood schrieb: Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As of this time, the Debian wxPython packages are only provided for Python 2.3. I couldn't tell you why. Try looking at the bug list for python-wxgtk2.6. I'm sure there's a bug filed against it asking for a Python 2.4 version.

[OT] How can I change Debian's default Python version?

2006-01-04 Thread Franz GEIGER
When I call the Python interpreter, the Python 2.4.1 version is called, because I installed it weeks ago from source by myself. That means the symlink /usr/bin/python points to 2.4. Fine. Now, when I install Python packages using the convenient Synaptic Package Manager, everything goes into the

Re: [OT] How can I change Debian's default Python version?

2006-01-04 Thread Ganesan Rajagopal
Franz GEIGER [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now, when I install Python packages using the convenient Synaptic Package Manager, everything goes into the 2.3-directory-tree. How can I change that? That's because synaptic installs packages compiled for the default debian python. You have two

Re: [OT] How can I change Debian's default Python version?

2006-01-04 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Franz GEIGER wrote: When I call the Python interpreter, the Python 2.4.1 version is called, because I installed it weeks ago from source by myself. That means the symlink /usr/bin/python points to 2.4. Fine. Now, when I install Python packages using the convenient Synaptic Package Manager,

Re: [OT] How can I change Debian's default Python version?

2006-01-04 Thread F. GEIGER
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: Franz GEIGER wrote: When I call the Python interpreter, the Python 2.4.1 version is called, because I installed it weeks ago from source by myself. That means the symlink /usr/bin/python points to 2.4. Fine. Now, when I install Python packages using the convenient

Re: [OT] How can I change Debian's default Python version?

2006-01-04 Thread F. GEIGER
Ganesan Rajagopal wrote: Franz GEIGER [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now, when I install Python packages using the convenient Synaptic Package Manager, everything goes into the 2.3-directory-tree. How can I change that? That's because synaptic installs packages compiled for the default debian