Installation trouble on SuSe GNU/Linux
Bastiaan J. Braams
I downloaded mpmath-0.11 and tried to install it on a cluster on which
I am a non-root user. Here is the command and the error message.
> python setup.py install
running install
error: invalid Python installation: unable to open
/usr/lib64/python2.5/config/Makefile (No such file or directory)
The cluster is running SuSe Linux, version 10.3 for X86-64. The
hardware is AMD, and here is `uname -a`:
> uname -a
Linux node35 2.6.27.8-default #1 SMP Mon Dec 8 17:15:47 EST 2008
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
We have python version 2.5.1, and the directory /usr/lib64/python2.5
exists, but indeed it does not have a config subdirectory. It does
have subdirectories ConfigParser.{py,pyc,pyo}.
I don't think anyone here would have done anything that changed the
Python 2.5.1 installation from the way it came to us pre-installed
with the hardware (courtesy of Microway).
Any advice?
Bas Braams
Fredrik Johansson
Hi,
Can you install other Python libraries? Since you're non-root, you
might have to manually specify an install path where you have write
access, e.g. with python setup.py install --home=~
If that doesn't work, it sounds like a problem with your Python setup.
If no one here is able to answer, try asking on python-list.
Fredrik