Zentrader wrote: >> I don't understand why Cameron has a different version of Python which >> doesn't seem to have sqlite support enabled. > > Agreed, but won't the package manager tell him if python-sqlite is > installed? That would be the next step since it appears that SQLite > intself is already installed. Since Ubuntu uses precompied binaries, > Python should be configured for SQLite which again leaves no python- > sqlite as the only possibility (yeah right). BTW Python is easy to > install manually.
When you install Python manually from source you need the header files for sqlite3 to get sqlite3 support. These are in the libsqlite3-dev package. I think you can distinguish a manually installed python from the packaged one by the .../local/... in its path, e. g., on my machine $ which python2.5 # in the distribution /usr/bin/python2.5 $ which python2.6 /usr/local/bin/python2.6 # installed from source I have installed libsqlite3-dev so I can't reproduce Cameron's error, but here's a similar one for bsddb: $ python2.5 Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jul 31 2008, 23:17:43) [GCC 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import bsddb >>> bsddb.__file__ '/usr/lib/python2.5/bsddb/__init__.pyc' $ python2.6 Python 2.6b2+ (trunk:65902, Aug 20 2008, 08:38:26) [GCC 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import bsddb Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/bsddb/__init__.py", line 58, in <module> import _bsddb ImportError: No module named _bsddb Peter PS: Yes, I'm using 2.6, but I don't think that's relevant for the problem. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list