Simon wrote: > I installed Python-2.4.4.tar.bz2 from python.org, using gcc-4.3 (within > openSUSE 11.1 x86_64) via 'make altinstall'. > > First, I tried to configure with the following flags: > --prefix=/opt/python-24 --enable-framework --with-pydebug > This provoked an error during compilation via make (sorry, the list was > so long, but I will post it, if it helps).
--enable-framework is for Mac OS X only. > Second, configured again without any flags. The installation by 'make > altinstall' to /usr/local was a success. Python2.6 seams unaffected, > too. So, I got my parallel installation. You have chosen the correct and canonical way to install a parallel installation of Python. > However, I cannot import modules like Tkinter or readline within python2.4. You must install the development library of tk, readline, zlib and libbz2 prior to configure && make. Try this on your box: zypper install gcc make autoconf automake libtool zlib-devel readline-devel tk-devel tcl-devel sqlite2-devel libbz2-devel libopenssl-devel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list