Re: Compiling python from soruce vs RPM ?

2007-04-19 Thread Paul Boddie
On 19 Apr, 04:39, howa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One more question: How to uninstall using the source package? the source package doesn't come with `make uninstall`? Right. That's another pitfall of most source distributions (ie. the Python sources from python.org) compared to system

Re: Compiling python from soruce vs RPM ?

2007-04-19 Thread howa
On 4月19日, 下午5時49分, Paul Boddie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19 Apr, 04:39, howa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One more question: How to uninstall using the source package? the source package doesn't come with `make uninstall`? Right. That's another pitfall of most source distributions (ie.

Re: Compiling python from soruce vs RPM ?

2007-04-19 Thread Paul Boddie
On 19 Apr, 18:40, howa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but i have the source package being installed...so any method/script to remove them? since finally i want to install via RPM ... You could use checkinstall to make a package, install it (forcibly if necessary), then remove it. That might wipe

Compiling python from soruce vs RPM ?

2007-04-18 Thread howa
I have compiled python 2.5 from source i.e. ./configure make make install but when i try to install another package require python, seems it can't regonize python... e.g.. /usr/bin/python is needed by xyz -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Compiling python from soruce vs RPM ?

2007-04-18 Thread hlubenow
howa wrote: I have compiled python 2.5 from source i.e. ./configure make make install but when i try to install another package require python, seems it can't regonize python... e.g.. /usr/bin/python is needed by xyz Does /usr/bin/python exist ? Why haven't you installed

Re: Compiling python from soruce vs RPM ?

2007-04-18 Thread Paul Boddie
howa wrote: I have compiled python 2.5 from source i.e. ./configure make make install By default, configure uses /usr/local as the prefix, not /usr... but when i try to install another package require python, seems it can't regonize python... e.g.. /usr/bin/python is needed by xyz

Re: Compiling python from soruce vs RPM ?

2007-04-18 Thread howa
On Apr 19, 6:10 am, Paul Boddie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since /usr/bin/python isn't found, it doesn't look like there's an existing version of Python that you might overwrite, but it's important to verify such things when installing software. That's where your distribution's packages have an