install Python-2.4.4 from source (parallel to existing Python-2.6)

[Benjamin Kaplan]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Simon <simon212 at gmx.de> wrote:

> edexter wrote:
>
>> simon wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everybody,
>>>
>>> The situation:
>>> I wrote a GUI, based on Python, TkInter and Pmw.
>>> It runs perfectly fine with Python 2.4 (providing, TkInter and Pmw are
>>> installed). But it crashes with Python 2.6. I tried this on MacOSX11.4
>>> and various Linux Distributions.
>>> Crashes occurs when I activate a Pmw.Diaog (I guess this is due to a bug
>>> in the installed blt package), also when I use setitems on
>>> Pmw.OptionMenu (I guess this is due to another package, associated with
>>> tcl/tk).
>>>
>>> The target:
>>> I have to get my GUI work under openSUSE 11.1 (x86_64).
>>>
>>> My plan:
>>> On my openSUSE 11.1 (x86_64), Python 2.6 is installed by default.
>>> I would like to know, how to install Python 2.4 along with TkInter and
>>> Pmw (and packages that are required by them), parallel to the existing
>>> Python 2.6. So that I do not break other software that depends on Python
>>> 2.6.
>>>
>>> If you can think of another plan, I would be also glad to discuss it.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Simon
>>>
>>
>> I suspect you want to install python 2.4 and then reinstall 2.6  I did
>> that in windows and I don't understand why it wouldn't work in linux
>>
>
> I'm afraid, installation is quit different under UNIX based systems and
> Windows.
>
> I installed Python-2.4.4.tar.bz2 from python.org, using gcc-4.3 (within
> openSUSE 11.1 x86_64) via 'make altinstall'.
>
> First, I tried to configure with the following flags:
> --prefix=/opt/python-24 --enable-framework --with-pydebug
> This provoked an error during compilation via make (sorry, the list was so
> long, but I will post it, if it helps).
>

The --enable-framework option is for creating Framework builds on OS X. It
won't work on Linux.


>
> Second, configured again without any flags. The installation by 'make
> altinstall' to /usr/local was a success. Python2.6 seams unaffected, too.
> So, I got my parallel installation.
>
> However, I cannot import modules like Tkinter or readline within python2.4.
>
> For example, Tkinter.py is located in /usr/local/lib/python2.4/lib-tk
>
> sys.path says: ['', '/usr/local/lib/python24.zip',
> '/usr/local/lib/python2.4', '/usr/local/lib/python2.4/plat-linux2',
> '/usr/local/lib/python2.4/lib-tk', '/usr/local/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload',
> '/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages']
>
> sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix say: '/usr/local'
>
> my bash's PATH variable says:
> /sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/root/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib64/jvm/jre/bin:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin
>
> Which configuration step did I miss after my Python2.4 installation? What
> did I do wrong?
>


Again, give us the error message. We can't help if we don't know exactly
what's going on.


>
> Cheers,
> Simon
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