[Mailman-Users] Errors During Make-Install

[Richard Barrett]

You probably have a problem with your Python installation.

_socket is part of the standard Python library providing support for 
the UNIX/BSD socket interface. Unless and until you can run python from 
the command line and enter the command "import socket" without getting 
an exception raised then there is no point in trying to do the Mailman 
install. You may need to re-install Python.

For instance, the following shows the socket module is installed 
properly (no exccption raised by the import):

[machine!/home/barrett]:python
Python 2.3.3 (#1, May 11 2004, 13:30:18)
[GCC 3.3.2] on sunos5
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import socket
 >>> import sys
 >>> sys.exit()
[machine!/home/barrett]:

On 22 Sep 2004, at 23:51, Luis Murdock wrote:

>    Hello,
>    I am trying to install and run Mailman on Solaris 2.7 or SunOS 5.7
>    and I'm getting the following fatal when running 'make install':
>
>    Traceback (most recent call last):
>      File "bin/update", line 50, in ?
>        from Mailman import Utils
>      File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 35, in ?
>        import cgi
>      File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/cgi.py", line 39, in ?
>        import urllib
>      File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/urllib.py", line 26, in ?
>        import socket
>      File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/socket.py", line 44, in ?
>        import _socket
>    ImportError: No module named _socket
>    *** Error code 1
>    make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `update'
>
>    I have installed python2.3.3 and will use Apache 2.0.  Can anyone
>    help with this error?
>
>
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