Hi Edward, Thank you very much for your information. This saves us a lot of time. I checked at nessy's home page for version requirement, and believe it was not specified there. I wish this was ...
Best regards, Changguo On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 4:23 AM, Edward d'Auvergne <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Changguo, > > Welcome to the NESSY mailing lists! The NESSY source code contains > many class definitions such as: > > class X(): > def something(self): > pass > > This syntax is only valid for Python 2.5 or higher. There are other > places in the NESSY sources which are incompatible with Python 2.4 and > earlier and there is no easy fix. So unfortunately NESSY cannot run > on your older machine. If you cannot upgrade and you have good > GNU/Linux experience, you can actually build and install Python 2.7.3 > into your home directory and then install all of the required Python > packages into this custom Python install. This will be able to run > NESSY and you will not need root access. But if you do not have > experience in building software from the source code or are not > adventurous enough to try compile Python and work out all of the issue > yourself, then I would recommend running NESSY on a more modern > operating system. I hope this helps. > > Regards, > > Edward > > > > > On 13 May 2013 18:41, Changguo Tang <[email protected]> wrote: >> After installed nessy linux rpm and/or python source code, running >> nessy gave these errors: >> [user@linux ~]$ nessy >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "/usr/share/nessy/nessy", line 27, in ? >> from dep_check import Dep_check, version_check >> File "/usr/share/nessy/dep_check.py", line 46 >> class Dep_check(): >> ^ >> SyntaxError: invalid syntax >> [user@linux ~]$ >> I tested on several linux PC's; all gave these errors, except one. >> The working PC runs Fedora 13 with python rpm: python-2.6.4. >> Failed PC's run CentOS5/RHEL5/fedora6 and python rpm: python-2.4.3 >> Is python-2.4.3 too old? >> Thanks in advance. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Nessy-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/nessy-users _______________________________________________ Nessy-users mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/nessy-users
