Talk:Build PyCEGUI from source for Linux

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Thoughts

A good topic, one close to my heart.

I am curious, though; in this snippet:

sudo rmdir /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages

  • If 'site-packages' is not empty, that command will fail; an 'rm -r' would be necessary, but in that case it means the directory might have valuable contents.
  • Which leads to my next question: is deleting that directory a good idea? Could it cause future problems with some other arbitrary piece of software?

- Crond 11:30, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

There should be a note about this, I agree. See, here's the problem: Ubuntu installs python in a non-standard location; dist-packages. Ubuntu's python doesn't add site-packages to the python path. This hack, provided there's no valuable contents in site-packages, is perfectly safe. (I've run into the problem, and used this solution, in a lot of installs. It even works across upgrades.)

Basically, the crux of all of this is that contents of site-packages needs to be copied over to dist-packages first, and then those steps can be performed. I'll make a note on the page.

- Morgul 02:10, 06 Jan 2012 (UTC)

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