Re: [cclib-users] installing cclib with debian

[Noel O'B. <no...@ca...>]

I use Debian stable (too?).

First of all, make sure you get the following responses:
$ dpkg -l python2.3
[......some junk.....]
ii  python2.3                         2.3.5-3sarge1                     An interactive high-level object-oriented language (version 2.3)

$ dpkg -l python2.3-numeric*
[....]
ii  python2.3-numeric                 23.8-1                            Numerical (matrix-oriented) Mathematics for Python
ii  python2.3-numeric-ext             23.8-1                            Extension modules for Numeric Python

I have a directory /usr/lib/python2.3/config and a file Makefile inside
it.

If you are using Debian stable, then there's something funny about your
Python installation. Don't remove python and then install again (as this
will uninstall everything that depends on python).

Instead try:
apt-get install python --reinstall

(Note that cclib works fine with python2.4 also; in which case you need
to install Numeric for python2.4 and when installing cclib, to use
python2.4 setup.py build, etc. -- however, I recommend you get your
python2.3 fixed, as there are many more packages available for python2.3
in Debian than for python2.4)

Regards,
 Noel

On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 11:08 -0300, Ian Hovell wrote:
> Dear cclibers,
> 
> My OS is Linux (Debian) and I have Python installed and running
> correctly with python-numeric-ext (or so it seems). I have managed to
> build the cclib package after uncompressing but it fails to install. The
> error states that it is an invalid Python installation:
> 
> unable to open /usr/lib/python2.3/config/Makefile
> 
> In fact the directory "config" and file "Makefile" are missing
> 
> it seems that Debian relies on Python can I safely remove python and
> reinstall it without losing my Linux installation?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Ian
> 
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