RELEASED Python 2.6a3 and 3.0a5

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> I'm trying to install on the latest Ubuntu (8.04) and the following
> extension modules fail:
> 
> _bsddb, _curses, _curse_panel, _hashlib, _sqlite3, _ssl, _tkinter,
> bz2, dbm, gdbm, readline, zlib
> 
> All of them except for _tkinter are included in the preinstalled
> Python 2.5.2, so I guess the dependencies must be somewhere there.
> Does Ubuntu have any non-standard lib dir ?

You need to manually install the -dev packages (through aptitude)
before building Python.

Regards,
Martin