Cool. The difference between our installs seems to be that I installed MDK9.1 from scratch. I keep a separate /home partition to let me do that easily - as I don't like the bugs that sometimes creep in via upgrades.
Glad to hear you got it going. Installing Python from source makes plenty of sense. Jon On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 18:26, Vince LaMonica wrote: > On Sunday, May 25, 2003, at 09:05 AM, Jon Carnes wrote: > > > Try installing every rpm from your distribution that has "python" in > > it. For Mandrake 9.1 I posted a message last month that pointed to all > > the rpm's that needed to be loaded. Mdk 9.0 probably has similar > > requirements. > > FWIW, I had the same problem [mdk 9.1, mailman 2.1.2]. I was not able > to get mailmanctl to run using the RPMs listed in that e.mail. I have > python installed via RPM, and that is/was my problem. I did not remove > the python [2.2.2] RPM, since it would break other stuff, however, i > simply compiled python from source, installing it into /usr/local/bin, > and then made sure that when I compiled Mailman, I pointed it to the > non-RPM install of python 2.2.2. I also changed my mm_cfg.py to make > sure it uses the /usr/local/bin version of python. > > Also note, I was on Mandrake 8.2, with Mailman 2.1.1 [source compile]. > When I upgraded to 9.1, I decided to also upgrade to 2.1.2 of mailman. > After the initial problem, I removed all traces of mailman 2.1.2 and > tried installing 2.1.1 on my 9.1 box, and it failed for the same reason. > > Compiling python from source was quite simple, as the only thing one > needs to make sure of is that it will be built in a /usr/local/* > directory structure so that it doesn't break any applications in > Mandrake 9.1 that need the python RPM install. > > HTH, > > /vjl/ > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org