Re: [Visualpython-users] Linux installation

[Bruce S. <bas...@nc...>]

The appearance of "/usr/local" here is due to having specified
PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2.6 and --prefix=/usr/local in the configure
step for building Visual. On Ubuntu there exist
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages and also
/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages, and it is the latter folder
where 3rd-party modules like Visual are apparently supposed to be
installed.

Bruce Sherwood

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:19 PM, C Anthony Risinger <an...@ex...> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Bruce Sherwood <bas...@nc...> wrote:
>> It does seem to be using the desired version of Python, as the full
>> path created is
>>
>> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages
>>
>> which contains the intended python2.6. I also tried replacing $PYTHON
>> with python$PYTHON_VERSION and still got site-packages. It's really
>> hard to understand how sysconfig.get_python_lib can act differently
>> within the autoconfigure environment.
>
> /usr/local?  shouldn't it be trying to link with the package manager's
> version?  at least, that's what your probably getting when you run
> `python` unless your doing something different.
>
> C Anthony
>