Hello Paul I removed those 4 files from Coot-0.6/bin and bingo, now Ubuntu reports its own Python version and Coot is also working fine.
Thank you Victor -----Original Message----- From: Mailing list for users of COOT Crystallographic Software [mailto:c...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Paul Emsley Sent: domingo, 26 de Abril de 2009 10:22 To: COOT@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: 'Isolate' Coot's Python2.6 from Ubuntu system Victor Alves wrote: > Dear all > > I installed Coot with Python and GTK2 in Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10. > > Ubuntu 8.10 has Python 2.5. > > Since 'ccp4-others.setup' file points to Coot's directory when I check > 'which python' I get version 2.6 (the one Coot provides). > > > Is there a way to isolate Coot's python from Ubuntu system but still > maintaining the ability to call Coot from the terminal? So that Ubuntu's > Python version would be the active one for all the system (except for Coot)? > Dear Victor, Thank you for reporting this problem. It is not unreasonable for ccp4's setup to add the coot binary directory to the path. However, (as you have noted) Coot adds its built-in python to this directory - and we do that deliberately (but I don't see why, currently). You could try to remove python, python-2.6, python-config and python-2.6-config from that directory and coot should still work fine. Please try this out and let us know if there are problems, I will remove their addition to the binaries if there are not. (Of course, Kay's solution also works - and I do something like that myself, which is why I have not seen this problem). Regards, Paul.