Help needed with compiling python

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thursday 26 November 2015 18:00, Cecil Westerhof wrote:

> On Wednesday 25 Nov 2015 23:58 CET, Laura Creighton wrote:
> 
>> In a message of Wed, 25 Nov 2015 22:52:23 +0100, Cecil Westerhof
>> writes:
>>>
>>> My system python was all-ready damaged: that is why I wanted to
>>> build myself.
>>
>> Your Suse system probably wants to use python for something. If your
>> system python is damaged, you badly need to fix that, using the
>> system package managers tools, before Suse does some sort of update
>> on you, using the broken python, which damages more of your system.
> 
> I tried that. But it installs only things in /usr/lib and /usr/lib64,
> nothing in /usr/bin, but at the same time it is adamant that it
> installed python. I wanted a quick fix, but it looks like that is not
> going to work. :'-( I'll have to find a way to get things fixed.
> 

On the assumption that you are more interested in fixing your broken system 
than learning how to compile Python, what happens if you use the Suse 
package manager to re-install Python?

e.g. zypper python

or equivalent.



-- 
Steve