Hello, I wanted to install python. From /n/sources/contrib/bichued/python I downloaded
python-2.5.1-ape.tgz python-2.5.1-sys.tgz. I untared the former in my home directory. I untared the latter in / (I got /sys/python created...) --- this I read in README.Plan9 file in python-2.5.1-ape.tgz. Also in README.Plan9 file in python-2.5.1-ape.tgz I read I should use two patches /n/sources/patch/applied/ape-ftruncate /n/sources/patch/ape-chmod-dirbit. Should I just copy the files from there (but which, actually, I see e.g. chmod.c, chmod.c.orig, chmod.c.new) to the appropriate directory (which I can read from the 'files' file), and recompile? Can the path/apply command be used locally? Also, why are there two files, python-2.5.1-ape.tgz and python-2.5.1-sys.tgz? (When a new version of python, e.g. 2.6, is wanted, what must be done?) Also, again in README.Plan9 there is a list of recommended contrib/install packages, but when I run them in the given order, there are places where a package complains about dependency, to be solved by another package which follows. Thus should it be run with contrib/install -f? Thanks Ruda
