Dear Andrea, Run this in a terminal: sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev and try again please.
Regards, Jan On 14 October 2011 18:59, akm <andrew.mussel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi group, just a quick note that building sage-4.7.1 from source on a > fresh install of Ubuntu 11.10 fails with this in the end of the log: > > > Sleeping for three seconds before testing python > math module imported OK > hashlib module imported OK > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<string>", line 1, in <module> > ImportError: No module named crypt > crypt module failed to import > Error: One or more modules failed to import. > /usr/bin/dpkg > You may have to install 'dpkg-architecture' > which is part of the Debian package 'dpkg-dev'. > Try installing it by typing > sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev > and rerun 'make'. > > real 6m39.244s > user 4m46.190s > sys 0m43.071s > sage: An error occurred while installing python-2.6.4.p11 > Please email sage-devel http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > explaining the problem and send the relevant part of > of /home/amusselman/Applications/sage-4.7.1/install.log. Describe > your computer, operating system, etc. > If you want to try to fix the problem yourself, *don't* just cd to > /home/amusselman/Applications/sage-4.7.1/spkg/build/python-2.6.4.p11 > and type 'make check' or whatever is appropriate. > Instead, the following commands setup all environment variables > correctly and load a subshell for you to debug the error: > (cd '/home/amusselman/Applications/sage-4.7.1/spkg/build/ > python-2.6.4.p11' && '/home/amusselman/Applications/sage-4.7.1/sage' - > sh) > When you are done debugging, you can type "exit" to leave the > subshell. > make[1]: *** [installed/python-2.6.4.p11] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/amusselman/Applications/sage-4.7.1/ > spkg' > > real 19m8.440s > user 12m1.489s > sys 2m11.224s > Error building Sage. > > > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- .~. /V\ Jan Groenewald /( )\ www.aims.ac.za ^^-^^ -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org