Christofer "Boz" Jennings wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a newbie to this list and to Python who has messed up Python on > Tiger :-( > > I'm on an eMac, G4 1.25 GHz. > > I installed Python 2.4 with TigerPython24Fix. Then I installed PIL. I > wanted to build Skencil but the build failed to find the Imaging > package. Looking for that package I noticed the build expected it in / > System/Library/... instead of /Library/... (where Python 2.4 got > installed) so ... and this is where I messed things up ... I started > changing symlinks and so forth. Now I'm hopelessly messed up. I've > clobbered Python of any version on my Mac. ... HELP!!!
That's bad. You'll probably want to reinstall the OS. Don't remove the Apple-installed Python. The OS depends on it. > The TigerPython24Fix installer now says that my hard drive not a > valid target, even though it worked before. > > I think I want to have Python 2.4 as the only version. Any help would > be much appreciated. No, you don't. What you do want to do is put /usr/local/bin in your $PATH before /usr/bin so typing $ python gives you 2.4.1. That was probably your problem with building Skencil. -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." -- Richard Harter _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
