Re: Ubuntu "Jaunty" Quixote package broken

This is installing from source, for both Quixote and mxDateTime. 


> > Robert Ladyman wrote:
> > Debian Lenny behaves better, the standard install supports Quixote when
> > running either Python 2.5 or Python 2.4. I know very little about Python
> > packaging under Debian/Ubuntu, but I am learning more then I ever
> > intended ...
>
> You could always install Quixote from source.
>
> Pick the Python you wish to run, and install it, if not already done.
>
> Download the Quixote tarball, extract it somewhere, and execute "python2.6
> setup.py install" as root or via sudo. Specify the python version on the
> command line if you have more than one Python, just to be certain. You can
> do the same with the MX Datetime package as well.
>
> This all presumes you have a working compiler environment on board, which
> is usually a safe bet on all but the most stripped down of Linux/Unixes.
>
> There is little to no danger that you'll mess up your Debian or Ubuntu
> system by installing something as innocuous as a Python package; the
> installed files will be deposited in
> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages -- you can always manually remove
> the package if you need to at some later date.
>
>
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