Re: [Visualpython-users] Install on Mandriva, crashes KDE...

[Dethe E. <de...@li...>]

On 30-Nov-06, at 3:30 PM, Bruce Sherwood wrote:

> I don't understand the bit about moving site-packages from /usr/ 
> local to
> /usr/bin. That sounds like you compiled against a Python in /usr/local
> but are trying to use the results with a different Python in /usr.  
> Seems
> like that ought to crash, as it indeed does.

Most python extensions are binary compatible across point releases,  
as long as the pythons were compiled with the same basic options.  So  
this does actually work, not universally, but with a lot of libraries.

--Dethe

>
> Bruce Sherwood
>
> Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote:
>
>> Does running glxgears cause the same problem?  What does glxinfo  
>> report?
>>
>> On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 22:51 +0000, chris wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I've just loaded Vpython on Mandriva 2007 and it imports ok (from  
>>> visual
>>> import *) but upon typing
>>> a = sphere(), the desktop crashes and I need to log in again...
>>>
>>> The install all went ok, but I'm a bit stumped as what to try first.
>>>
>>> I had to move the visual directory from /usr/local/lib/python2.4/ 
>>> site-packages
>>> to /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages but other than that  
>>> everything proceeded
>>> as normal.
>>>
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