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Old 02-21-2008, 04:33 AM
Henrik Carlqvist
 
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Default Re: Installing python modules from source in Slackware 12

Ayaz Ahmed Khan <ayaz@dev.null> wrote:
> I do a lot of Python development on Slackware systems. About the only
> way I install (and have ever installed) Python modules is by running
> `python setup.py install` from within the source directory of the Python
> modules. This installs the relevant files for the modules
> into /usr/lib/python<version>/site-packages/. I've never compiled
> Python modules from source any other way.


Thanks for your reply. Also pygtk ships with a setup.py, but that file
gives a warning and pygtk is supposed to be installed with "./configure;
make; make install" instead.

regards Henrik
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