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Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network?

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Date 2014-07-22 20:51 -0700
Subject Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network?
From Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 5:41 PM, roys2005 <roys2005@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Emile, thanks for the quick response.
>
> Does this mean Python cannot be or should not be installed at a central location?
> If so, what is the root cause for this?

Back when I was a sysadmin, I would install CPython to a few different
NFS filesystems for hundreds of machines to use (more than one
filesystem because we had about 5 *ix variants - you probably only
need 1). It's just a matter of "./configure --prefix=/where/ever &&
make && make install" once you have the build dependencies.

It worked fine, but if you symlink you get into trouble because Python
can't find it's default module path where it expects; symlinking can
require a wrapper that sets an environment variable - I believe it was
$PYTHONPATH.

Perhaps it would be appropriate to ask: Why are you wondering if it works?

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Is it possible to install Python on a network? roys2005@gmail.com - 2014-07-22 13:49 -0700
  Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network? emile <emile@fenx.com> - 2014-07-22 14:08 -0700
  Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network? roys2005 <roys2005@gmail.com> - 2014-07-22 17:41 -0700
    Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network? Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2014-07-22 20:51 -0700
      Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network? roys2005 <roys2005@gmail.com> - 2014-07-23 07:15 -0700
        Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-24 01:46 +1000
        Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network? Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2014-07-23 16:47 -0700
        Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network? Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2014-07-23 20:40 -0700
    Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-07-23 14:18 +1000
      Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network? roys2005 <roys2005@gmail.com> - 2014-07-23 07:24 -0700
        Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-24 01:56 +1000
        Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-07-24 12:35 +1000
        Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-24 12:42 +1000
        Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-07-24 12:48 +1000
        Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-24 12:52 +1000
    Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-23 16:17 +1000

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