[neurosetta] Configuration problems]

[Frank Benkstein]

Hi, Ian.

On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 00:19:21 +0000
ianseeks <ianseeks at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

> Frank,
> 
> Thanks for offering to help. I'm using SUSE 9.0.  You maybe a newbie
> to Python but that's more experience than me as I've never used Python
> at all.  :o) Here's the information you requested.
> 
> Python was installed from SUSE ftp site.
> python -V : 		Python 2.3+ 
> Positron was installed via RPM from http://www.xiph.org/positron/
> rpm -q positron:	positron-1.0-1
> and it is in /usr/bin/positron.
> "pyogg/pyvorbis" was installed via RPMs from http://www.vorbis.com/
> download_unix.psp#python
> rpm -q pyogg:		pyogg-1.0-1
> rpm -q pyvorbis:	pyvorbis-1.0-1
> 

Please try the following:

- try to find out, where the rpms installed there files. ("rpm -q -l
packagename" I think)

- invoke python as a shell. type:
        "# python"
        ">>> import sys"
        ">>> sys.path"
        (Ctrl+D to exit)

The third command should give you a list where python looks for
additional packages and one entry should match the path where positron
and pyogg/vorbis installed their *.py and *.pyc.

This seems not to be the case at least for your installation of
positron.

To fix this permanently you should add
"export PYTHONPATH=/path/to/pyogg:/path/to/pyvorbis:/path/to/positron"
to your .bashrc or .bash_profile. Try it it first on the command line.

> I've re-read the http://www.xiph.org/positron/ page and it says "There
> have been reports that the RPMS on that page do not work on current
> RPM systems like RedHat 9 and Mandrake 9.1. We suggest you install
> pyogg and pyvorbis from the source tarballs. Please make sure you have
> the -devel or -dev packages for libogg and libvorbis installed if your
> distribution has that sort of thing." - maybe this is my problem too,
> i shall try downloading the source tomorrow. 

Please try my suggestions first. I think the problem is rather trivial.
(Python looks /here/positron/config.pyc but it is installed
/there/positron/config.pyc)

> If that doesn't work then I might email the developer directly
> because, as you mention, this list seems very quiet.

You could but I think all he could do to fix this problem is to supply
rpms for each (rpm based - btw I love portage :-) distribution out
there. I don't think he really wants to do this.

> regards
> 
> Ian

Bye

Frank Benkstein.
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