[Pythonmac-SIG] messed up Tiger python install

[Robert Kern]

Christofer "Boz" Jennings wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a newbie to this list and to Python who has messed up Python on  
> Tiger :-(
> 
> I'm on an eMac, G4 1.25 GHz.
> 
> I installed Python 2.4 with TigerPython24Fix. Then I installed PIL. I  
> wanted to build Skencil but the build failed to find the Imaging  
> package. Looking for that package I noticed the build expected it in / 
> System/Library/... instead of /Library/... (where Python 2.4 got  
> installed) so ... and this is where I messed things up ... I started  
> changing symlinks and so forth. Now I'm hopelessly messed up. I've  
> clobbered Python of any version on my Mac. ... HELP!!!

That's bad. You'll probably want to reinstall the OS. Don't remove the
Apple-installed Python. The OS depends on it.

> The TigerPython24Fix installer now says that my hard drive not a  
> valid target, even though it worked before.
> 
> I think I want to have Python 2.4 as the only version. Any help would  
> be much appreciated.

No, you don't. What you do want to do is put /usr/local/bin in your
$PATH before /usr/bin so typing

  $ python

gives you 2.4.1. That was probably your problem with building Skencil.

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Robert Kern
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