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

 

[Fredrik Lundh]

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".

"make" doesn't install the interpreter by itself; you're supposed to use
"make install" (or "make altinstall") to do that.

just copying the interpreter binary around won't give you a complete
install.

> It seemed to say to copy the executable over to the /usr/local
> directory, which I did.

the README says:

To start building right away (on UNIX): type "./configure" in the
current directory and when it finishes, type "make". This creates an
executable "./python"; to install in /usr/local, first do "su root"
and then "make install".

the detailed installation section says:

To install the Python binary, library modules, shared library modules
(see below), include files, configuration files, and the manual page,
just type

make install

/.../

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[Marshall Dudley]

Sorry, this is a FreeBSD system 4.8-RELEASE

I found another set of documents that say to use the following to
install::

python setup.py install

but after running it, I still have the same problem.

Marshall

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

 

[Marshall Dudley]

"make" doesn't install the interpreter by itself; you're supposed to use
"make install" (or "make altinstall") to do that.

just copying the interpreter binary around won't give you a complete
install.


the README says:

To start building right away (on UNIX): type "./configure" in the
current directory and when it finishes, type "make". This creates an
executable "./python"; to install in /usr/local, first do "su root"
and then "make install".

Yes, that is what I did. Since I ended up with no executable in /usr/local,
or /usr/local/bin and it said " This creates an
executable "./python" (which it did); to install in /usr/local" I copied
the one it created over to /usr/local, then later /usr/local/bin

the detailed installation section says:

To install the Python binary, library modules, shared library modules
(see below), include files, configuration files, and the manual page,
just type

make install

/.../

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Yes, I typed "make install". But nothing gets put into /usr/local or
/usr/local/bin without me copying it over. And if I run python it in the
directory I unpacked it in, it works, but if I run the copy in /usr/local or
/usr/local/bin it does not.

I also tried the instuctions on their web site:

"python setup.py install"

But get the same result, but it copies and puts the following 3 files in the
/usr/local/bin dir.

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 96 May 31 07:50 idle
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 81 May 31 07:50 pydoc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 18017 May 31 07:50 smtpd.py

Marshall

 

[Warren Block]

Sorry, this is a FreeBSD system 4.8-RELEASE

I found another set of documents that say to use the following to
install::

python setup.py install

but after running it, I still have the same problem.

[top-posting trimmed, please don't do that]

Doesn't the port work for 4.8? It does work on FreeBSD 4.11, but there
may have been changes to the ports system since 4.8. (You should
consider updating to 4.11.)

There are several patch files in the FreeBSD port, including
one to setup.py.

The easiest way is to cvsup your ports tree and then

cd /usr/ports/lang/python
make
make install
make clean

 

[Marshall Dudley]

Sorry, this is a FreeBSD system 4.8-RELEASE

I found another set of documents that say to use the following to
install::

python setup.py install

but after running it, I still have the same problem.

[top-posting trimmed, please don't do that]

Doesn't the port work for 4.8? It does work on FreeBSD 4.11, but there
may have been changes to the ports system since 4.8. (You should
consider updating to 4.11.)

There are several patch files in the FreeBSD port, including
one to setup.py.

The easiest way is to cvsup your ports tree and then

cd /usr/ports/lang/python
make
make install
make clean

Now I have a python that runs, but the application I want to run it on
"denyhosts" gives me the following error:

Python >= 2.3 required. You are using: 2.2.2 (#1, Jun 4 2006, 16:29:13)
[GCC 2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD]]

######################################################################

Visit http://www.python.org and download a more recent version of
Python.

You should install this version in addition to your current version
(rather than upgrading your current version) because your system might
depend on the current version. After installing the newer version, for
instance version 2.4, simply invoke DenyHosts explicitly with the new
version of python, eg:

$ python2.4 ./denyhosts.py

######################################################################

Is it not possible to install the latest version of python on my FreeBSD
system? Upgrading the FreeBSD is not an option since this is a production
system and everything else is working fine.

Marshall

 

[Fredrik Lundh]

Is it not possible to install the latest version of python on my FreeBSD
system? Upgrading the FreeBSD is not an option since this is a production
system and everything else is working fine.

that's really a FreeBSD question, isn't it?

> You are using: 2.2.2 (#1, Jun 4 2006, 16:29:13)

Python 2.2.2 was originally released in 2002, but your copy was built
yesterday? did the FreeBSD source kit you got really contain a four
year old release? heck, it's not even the 2.2 release in the 2.2
series, and there's been two major releases since then.

are you sure you cannot get a *prebuilt* newer version from some FreeBSD
repository?

or if that's not possible, use the *standard* python.org source kit?
after all, it's known to build and install on virtually any modern Unix
or Unix-like system (and most non-Unix systems too), and you're free to
install it everywhere you want (and the default on Unix is /usr/local,
so you don't even have to read the README; just make sure you use the
real thing, instead of some botched FreeBSD-specific source kit).

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[Marshall Dudley]

that's really a FreeBSD question, isn't it?


Python 2.2.2 was originally released in 2002, but your copy was built
yesterday? did the FreeBSD source kit you got really contain a four
year old release? heck, it's not even the 2.2 release in the 2.2
series, and there's been two major releases since then.

No, there was no copy on the system. When I did the make the last time as
directed in the previous message, it downloaded it from the python site, then
compiled and installed it. The 2.2.2 release is what it downloaded.

are you sure you cannot get a *prebuilt* newer version from some FreeBSD
repository?

I did compile a new copy originally, and it worked fine in the directory that I
compiled it in, but when moved to the /usr/local/bin directory where it should
have installed, it complains that it cannot find it's library. It may just be a
matter of what directory I should put the sources into and compile from, but I
can find nowhere that this information is provided, everything I see indicates I
can compile it in any directory.

or if that's not possible, use the *standard* python.org source kit?
after all, it's known to build and install on virtually any modern Unix
or Unix-like system (and most non-Unix systems too), and you're free to
install it everywhere you want (and the default on Unix is /usr/local,
so you don't even have to read the README; just make sure you use the
real thing, instead of some botched FreeBSD-specific source kit).

That is what I did originally, downloaded the latest version from the main
python site. I compiled by the README file instructions, and I compiled by the
instructions on the python url which are different, but both gave identical
results, compiles fine, runs fine from the directory I compiled in, but will
error out when I move the executible code to and run it from the /usr/local/bin
or the /usr/local directory.

Marshall

 

[Fredrik Lundh]

That is what I did originally, downloaded the latest version from the main
python site. I compiled by the README file instructions, and I compiled by the
instructions on the python url which are different, but both gave identical
results, compiles fine, runs fine from the directory I compiled in, but will
error out when I move the executible code to and run it from the /usr/local/bin
or the /usr/local directory.

deep sigh. alright, one more attempt:

DO NOT copy any binaries yourself, DO NOT use any bogus FreeBSD source
distribution, DO NOT download 2.2.2 if you need Python 2.3 or newer, DO
NOT type random commands into the shell when logged in as root. etc.

just follow these instructions:

1) go fetch a the latest source code kit from python.org. I recommend
getting Python-2.4.3.tgz:

$ wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.3/Python-2.4.3.tgz

2) unpack the file to a local temporary directory

$ tar xvfz Python-2.4.3.tar.gz
$ cd Python-2.4.3

3) in that directory, type the following commands:

$ ./configure
$ make
$ ./python

4) verify that the ./python command prints the following:

Python 2.4.3 [followed by some number, and today's date]
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" ...
5) press control-D to leave the interpreter

6) login as root, and type

# make install

(or use sudo, or whatever mechanism you usually do to run a command as root)

7) log out from root. that's it. python is now installed as
"/usr/local/bin/python", *and* as "/usr/local/bin/python2.4". support
libraries and other files are installed under /usr/local/lib/python2.4
and /usr/local/include/python2.4.

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[Marshall Dudley]

deep sigh. alright, one more attempt:

DO NOT copy any binaries yourself, DO NOT use any bogus FreeBSD source
distribution, DO NOT download 2.2.2 if you need Python 2.3 or newer, DO
NOT type random commands into the shell when logged in as root. etc.

just follow these instructions:

1) go fetch a the latest source code kit from python.org. I recommend
getting Python-2.4.3.tgz:

$ wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.3/Python-2.4.3.tgz

OK, did that again.

2) unpack the file to a local temporary directory

$ tar xvfz Python-2.4.3.tar.gz
$ cd Python-2.4.3

did that again.

3) in that directory, type the following commands:

$ ./configure
$ make
$ ./python

OK, did that, got:

Python 2.4.3 (#2, Jun 5 2006, 11:15:03)
[GCC 2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD]] on freebsd4
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

4) verify that the ./python command prints the following:

Python 2.4.3 [followed by some number, and today's date]
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" ...
5) press control-D to leave the interpreter

Ok, did that.

6) login as root, and type

# make install

OK, did that again.

(or use sudo, or whatever mechanism you usually do to run a command as root)

7) log out from root. that's it. python is now installed as
"/usr/local/bin/python", *and* as "/usr/local/bin/python2.4". support
libraries and other files are installed under /usr/local/lib/python2.4
and /usr/local/include/python2.4.

</F>

OK, that is exactly what I had done previously, but this time there IS a copy of
python in the /usr/local/bin directory, and this time it DOES work. Don't know why
the previous times it put in the /usr/local/bin/pydoc, /usr/local/bin/idle and
/usr/local/bin/smtpd.py files, but not the python executable one.

Thanks,

Marshall