Using python RPM on SuSE 8.1 : No libpython.a or libpython.so present. Why?

[Gerhard Häring]

Douglass Turner wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to install a statistics package called RSPython that
> requires a python shared library to be present on my SuSE 8.1 linux
> box. My python is provide as an RPM package and as far as I can tell
> there is no libpython.a or libpython.so. What gives?
> 
> How do I get these libraries on my machine?

Python is split in several RPM packages in most Linux distributions. The 
one that will contain the files you need is the development package, 
commonly called python-devel, python-dev or the like. So just install 
that package via YaST2.

-- Gerhard