Re: Broken Python 2.6 installation on Ubuntu Linux 8.04

2010-01-25 Thread John Ladasky
On Jan 24, 3:52 pm, Christian Heimes li...@cheimes.de wrote: By the way you mustn't install your own Python with make install, use make altinstall! Your /usr/local/bin/python binary masks the original python command in /usr/bin. You should remove all /usr/local/bin/py* binaries that do not

Broken Python 2.6 installation on Ubuntu Linux 8.04

2010-01-24 Thread John Ladasky
Hello everyone, I've posted this same question over on ubuntuforums.org, so I'm trying to get help in all of the logical places. I'm running Ubuntu Linux 8.04 (Hardy) on a fairly new x86 box, with two hard disks in a software RAID 1 configuration. Hardy comes with Python 2.5 as a standard

Re: Broken Python 2.6 installation on Ubuntu Linux 8.04

2010-01-24 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:53 PM, John Ladasky lada...@my-deja.com wrote: Hello everyone, I've posted this same question over on ubuntuforums.org, so I'm trying to get help in all of the logical places. I'm running Ubuntu Linux 8.04 (Hardy) on a fairly new x86 box, with two hard disks in a

Re: Broken Python 2.6 installation on Ubuntu Linux 8.04

2010-01-24 Thread Christian Heimes
Benjamin Kaplan wrote: Extensions written in C must be recompiled for every version of Python. Since you're using a version of Python not available through the package manager, your packages are also not available through that. You'll have to download the sources for those and compile them by

Re: Broken Python 2.6 installation on Ubuntu Linux 8.04

2010-01-24 Thread John Ladasky
Thanks, Benjamin, I am getting a handle on this. I've written my own Python modules before, and have installed them using distutils. So I know that procedure. I just downloaded the Numpy 1.4.0 tarball, and I succeeded in installing it. A program I wrote which depends on numpy ran successfully