Python 2.4.1 installation problem

[Philippe C. Martin]

I had not realized (silly me) that Python might need external libraries in
order to support specific modules.

I have installed the bz2 and readline devel packages re-configured/made and
everythin os now working.




Philippe C. Martin wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to install 2.4.1 on a new machine and have the following
> problems.
> 
> 1) I'm on MDK 10.1
> 2) The system had 2.3.4 installed in /usr , I deleted the lib
> 3) I ran ./configure --prefix=/usr, then make, then make install,
> everything went OK
> 
> 
> If I run Python, I get
> 
> File "/etc/pythonrc.py", Line 2 in ?
> ImportError: no module readline
> 
> 
> 
> I also tried to run one of my script and got an import error on bz2.
> 
> 
> I have 2.4.1 running OK on another machine with the exact same distro.
> 
> 
> Any clue ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Philippe