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From: Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>
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Subject: Re: Help needed with compiling python
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 22:39:01 +0100
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On Thursday 26 Nov 2015 12:07 CET, Dave Farrance wrote:

> Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday 25 Nov 2015 23:58 CET, Laura Creighton wrote:
>>>
>>> Your Suse system probably wants to use python for something. If
>>> your system python is damaged, you badly need to fix that, using
>>> the system package managers tools, before Suse does some sort of
>>> update on you, using the broken python, which damages more of your
>>> system.
>>
>> I tried that. But it installs only things in /usr/lib and
>> /usr/lib64, nothing in /usr/bin, but at the same time it is adamant
>> that it installed python. I wanted a quick fix, but it looks like
>> that is not going to work. :'-( I'll have to find a way to get
>> things fixed.
>
> A complete reinstall of Suse (after saving your home directory and
> work) might be quickest if you're in the dark about what's broken.
>
> But you might be able to fix it. If you can figure out which
> packages contain the damaged files, then do forced reinstalls of
> those. I've not used Suse, but a quick Google tells me that the
> syntax is:
>
> zypper in -f <package-name>
>
> So you'll want to try package names like "python" and "python2.7".

Sadly that also only installs only libraries and no applications.

-- 
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof