Reinstall python 2.3 on OSX 10.3.5?

Christian Dieterich cdieterich at geosci.uchicago.edu
Thu Feb 3 10:37:06 EST 2005


On Déardaoin, Feabh 3, 2005, at 01:52 America/Chicago, Robert Kern 
wrote:

> Christian Dieterich wrote:
>> On Dé Céadaoin, Feabh 2, 2005, at 17:48 America/Chicago, 
>> moa at extrapolation.com wrote:
>>> Hi there
>>>
>>> I started a very long and roundabout process of attempting to install
>>> python 2.3.4 along side my apple-installed 2.3 system. To make a long
>>> story short, I have completely confabulated my environment ( i 
>>> deleted
>>> the 2.3 binaries and so forth from the system in an attempt to start
>>> things fresh), and now I cannot figure out how to reinstall the base
>>> 2.3 Apple python distribution.
>>> Can somebody please point me in the right direction?
>> You could use
>> fink install python
>> which makes you a Python installation under /sw.
>
> But that doesn't solve his problem, which is to restore the 
> Apple-supplied Python that he deleted.

Agreed. I was not aware that the preinstalled Python differs from a 
normal one.

I implicitely assumed he would link /usr-Python to /sw-Python, and then 
continue using fink for not to interfere with /usr anymore.

Christian




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