Talk:Build PyCEGUI from source for Linux - Revision history

Morgul at 02:10, 7 January 2012

2012-01-07T02:10:34Z

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2011-07-10T11:30:18Z

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Crond: blather

2011-07-10T11:29:24Z

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A good topic, one close to my heart.

I am curious, though; in this snippet:

<code>
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
</code>

* 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?

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	- [[User:Crond\|Crond]] 11:30, 10 July 2011 (UTC)		- [[User:Crond\|Crond]] 11:30, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
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		+	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.)
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		+	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.
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		+	- [[User:Morgul\|Morgul]] 02:10, 06 Jan 2012 (UTC)

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 * 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?