Re: [Hamlib-developer] hamlib Python module

[Nate B. <n0...@n0...>]

* On 2023 05 Feb 19:12 -0600, Phil wrote:
> 
> On 5/2/23 23:00, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > There is a way to make such a path permanent.
> 
> Thank you Ervin and Nate, problem solved.
> 
> By the way adding a link to "/usr/local/lib" and adding "/usr/local/lib" to
> my path didn't help and I'm not sure why.

If you mean the shell's PATH variable, that is only for executables.
Libraries have a much different search mechanism.

See:

man ldconfig

> However adding a ".pth" file to
> "/home/phil/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/" did the trick.

It would seem that just making the path "python3" would be sufficient,
but I suspect there would be symbol mismatches of modules compiled
against different minor versions of Python.

> I've made a note of the procedure because I'll probably need to do this
> again when Python is upgraded.

Yup.  Then a few years down the road you get to search through the file
system trying to remember that trick.  🤣

73, Nate

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