viewcvs install error on solaris

[bva]

I'm less than a newbie in Python.  Do you have to download these modules 
seperately or do they come with the default python install?

Jack J. Woehr wrote:
> bva wrote:
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> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>While trying to install viewcvs on a solaris 5.9 machine I get the
>>following error message:
>>
>>Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "./viewcvs-install", line 35, in ?
>>     import compat
>>   File "./lib/compat.py", line 20, in ?
>>     import urllib
>>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/urllib.py", line 26, in ?
>>     import socket
>>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/socket.py", line 41, in ?
>>     from _socket import *
>>ImportError: No module named _socket
>>
>>Python is installed on the machine.  Can anybody tell me what I'm doing
>>wrong or what I've forgotten?
>>
> 
> 
> Apparently, there's a module named "socket" that you don't have installed.
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