I tried to install amara according to the recommendations on this list. There were evidently compilation errors. The results are below
Also the quick reference gives 404 not found errors Thanks $ sudo easy_install amara Searching for amara Best match: Amara 1.2.0.2 Processing Amara-1.2.0.2-py2.4.egg Amara 1.2.0.2 is already the active version in easy-install.pth Installing trimxml script to /usr/bin Installing flextyper script to /usr/bin Installing scimitar script to /usr/bin Using /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Amara-1.2.0.2-py2.4.egg Processing dependencies for amara Searching for 4Suite-XML>=1.0.2 Reading http://www.python.org/pypi/4Suite-XML/ Reading http://4suite.org/ Reading http://www.python.org/pypi/4Suite-XML/1.0.2 Best match: 4Suite-XML 1.0.2 Downloading http://cheeseshop.python.org/packages/source/4/4Suite-XML/4Suite-XML-1.0.2.zip#md5=b5515baa72c1b88613af71d2af0a539a Processing 4Suite-XML-1.0.2.zip Running 4Suite-XML-1.0.2/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-w9816x/4Suite-XML-1.0.2/egg-dist-tmp-xg9AOi Ft/Lib/src/number.c:7:20: error: Python.h: No such file or directory Ft/Lib/src/number.c:10: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '*' token Ft/Lib/src/number.c:14: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '*' token Ft/Lib/src/number.c:36: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '*' token Ft/Lib/src/number.c:57: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '*' token Ft/Lib/src/number.c:75: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'numberMethods' Ft/Lib/src/number.c:82: warning: return type defaults to 'int' Ft/Lib/src/number.c: In function 'DL_EXPORT': Ft/Lib/src/number.c:82: error: expected declaration specifiers before 'initnumber' Ft/Lib/src/number.c:99: error: expected '{' at end of input error: Setup script exited with error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list