Re: [Visualpython-users] Visual Python Linux install problems (fwd)

[Ari H. <ahe...@an...>]

On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 11:08:23PM -0500, Bruce Sherwood wrote:
> A new user sent this to me. Can anyone offer advice that I could pass on? 
> (He first uninstalled Python 1.5.2 and installed Python 2.0, because the 
> VPython web site led him to believe that he needed to do this. I've changed 
> the wording on the Linux download page to make it clear that we don't have 
> a Python 2.0 version yet, though it is being worked on.)
> 
> > I re-installed Python 1.5.2 and went ahead and tried installing VP on
> > linux  (mandrake 7.0) and it had trouble finding the Numeric module, even
> > though I  had just installed it.  Do I need to rebuild 1.5.2 from source
> > with the  numeric module included?
> >

Um, no. The C++ source doesn't depend on any numeric libraries.

Your installation of numeric is probably not correct. If you start up python
(should be python 1.5.2), and do an 'import Numeric', does it work?

In general in reporting error messages, text descriptions are *useless*
without *exact* error messages. This should have been accompanied by a trace
of Python/Visual starting up and showing the problem.



ari


Bruce: why don't you put the list address on the VPython homepage? People
should be mailing this list as a first resource, rather than you. Also, you
could link to the sourceforge list archives.