Re: Frustrated trying to build beecrypt & rpm on a Debian system whereI'm not root

[Valery Reznic <valery_reznic yahoo com>]

--- Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 gmail com> wrote:

> > That's probably because the rpm module is a Red
> Hat thing, not a
> > Python thing. An RPM of Python 2.4 for a system
> with Python 2.3 on it
> > probably doesn't include the rpm module because
> it's not generally
> > needed outside the RH utilities, which all pretty
> much require that
> > you use the version of python installed with the
> system (if for no
> > other reason than that you get the non-standard
> modules that are
> > installed with it).
> >
> > Not sure which way to advise you to go from
> here....
> >
> 
> Thanks for your attention. I appreciate it.  I keep
> feeling like I'm
> 'this close' to fixing the problem and that my
> difficulty is so
> fundamental/simple/ignorant that Python folks can't
> see what I'm
> asking.
> 
> Let me try to ask this one more time.
> 
> In Perl, users can install modules in their home
> directories.  The
> make command changes by adding
> PREFIX=$HOME/user_perl
> 
> or some such thing and then when you want to run a
> Perl program that
> uses both modules from the /usr/lib/perl5 set and
> the user's set, you
> can add a use lib command in the Perl program so it
> goes to look in
> $HOME/user_perl when it can't find it in
> /usr/lib/perl5.  I think
> there is also an environment way to set that path,
> but I don't
> generally do it.
> 
> On This Debian system that has python installed (it
> has versions 2.2,
> 2.3, and 2.4), I want to take the same approach of
> building Python
> modules for beecrypt and rpm and installing them in
> $HOME/packages and
> then when I run the Python program, i want it to
> behave like Perl and
> get modules from either place.
> 
> So far, I am able, I think, to force my beecrypt and
> rpm to build
> against the python2.4 that is installed on the
> system.  I can install
> them in $HOME/packages/lib/python2.4.
> 
> But I do not know the  magical incantation that will
> allow a python
> 2.4 program to run and use modules stored in $HOME. 
> From my reading,
> I though that if I did this:
> 
> export
> PYTHONPATH=$HOME/packages/lib/python2.4:$PYTHONPATH
> 
> it would be sufficient.  But it seems not to be
> because a python2.4
> program that runs does not look for modules in
> $HOME/packages/lib/python2.4.
May be you need use PYTHONHOME ?
If it's doesn't help you can try to run your program
under strace, and see where python tried to open
files.

Valery

> 
> I'm surprised this doesn't come up more often.  In
> Perl, it gets
> discussed all the time.
> 
> pj
> 
> 
> -- 
> Paul E. Johnson
> Professor, Political Science
> 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
> University of Kansas
> 
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