Hello James, Alessio, anyone else
I've figured out how to modify a package file and have created a custom
gramps .deb that only requires python2.6.
Then I had a problem installing it, which pointed me at Python Central,
which ships pyversions.py, that only supports 2.4 and 2.5. I modified that
It turns out I wasn't completely correct, the install still crashes in
postinst (the reason it didn't die earlier was because I accidentally had
python2.5 installed from previous testing. So no reason to believe my change
to pyversions.py accomplished anything.
However, GRAMPS still works with
Hi (James?), to help confirm that GRAMPS works with Python 2.6, I installed
GRAMPS on Karmic Alpha 6 by first installing all the pre-reqs except
python2.5, then I downloaded the package from packages.ubuntu.com, then:
sudo dpkg --ignore-depends=python2.5 -i gramps_3.1.2-1_all.deb
Shown below
hello again, I sure hope I'm doing this correctly. I looked at the patch
Alessio provided, it seems to say Python = 2.5 is needed, I believe that
should specfically be Python 2.5 or 2.6, because 3.0 is not allowed. I do
see he removed the Python = 2.4.4-6, that's good.
Jeff
here's the patch
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