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* 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? | * 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? | ||
- [[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) | ||
Latest revision as of 02:10, 7 January 2012
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)
