Installation Problem

[Marshall Dudley]

I am trying to install python, but am having problems.  I did what the
README file said, and it created an executible code in the current
directory as it said it would when I typed "make". It seemed to say to
copy the executable over to the /usr/local directory, which I did.

If I type ./python in the directory I did the make in I get:

execonn# ./python
Python 2.4.3 (#1, May 31 2006, 07:50:04)
[GCC 2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD]] on freebsd4
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

Which is I believe correct.

But if I type /usr/local/python I get:

Python 2.4.3 (#1, May 31 2006, 07:50:04)
[GCC 2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD]] on freebsd4
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>
execonn# /usr/local/python
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Python 2.4.3 (#1, May 31 2006, 07:50:04)
[GCC 2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD]] on freebsd4
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

So nothing that tries to use it works.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Marshall