!!! URGENT - Need help ... Installing Python !!!

[Thomas Weholt]

Sure you cannot use the rpm available at www.ActiveState.com? Don't know if
www.python.org has any pre-compiled packages.

Thomas

"HoKi" <hoki26 at gmx.de> wrote in message
news:9evuqo$5ll$1 at sun.rhrk.uni-kl.de...
> Hi 2 everyone,
> I've got some problems installing Python 2.1 on SuSE-Linux 7.0.
> Perhaps, I'm too silly for installing ... here are my worksteps
>
> a) after downloading http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.1/Python-2.1.tgz
>     in directory "/installationen" => unpacking:  gunzip -c Python-2.1.tgz
> |tar xvf -
>
> b) executing:  ./configure
>     used compiler: gcc
>
> c) when I wanted to start "make", i became following message:
>     > make
>
>
>
gcc -c -g -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I. -I./Include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -o
> Modules/python.o Modules/python.c
>     >In file included from /usr/include/errno.h:36,
>     >            from Include/Python.h:48,
>     >            from Modules/python.c:3:
>     >/usr/include/bits/errno.h:25: linux/errno.h: No such file or
directory
>     >make: *** [Modules/python.o] Error 1
>
> What was wrong? What does the Errormessage mean? Do I have a
> misconfiguration on my system? How can I remove this Error?
> Please help me ... it's very important for my diploma ...
>
> -Holger-
>
>