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Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain

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On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> I daresay any decent package manager would be able to provide the
> complete tool chain for building Python from source. But I have no idea
> what tools are needed -- gcc and make, obviously, but what else? Maybe it
> really is as simple as "yum install gcc make", but I suspect that it
> won't be. "yum install gcc make yacc bison elephant weasel fox cow spam
> ham cheese chalk aardvark" perhaps. (I may have made one or two of those
> up.)

What I do is apt-get the most obvious things (g++/gcc and make, in
this case), then run configure and see if it bombs, then run make and
see if it bombs, and whenever there's a "command not found", attempt
to apt-get that command as a package name. It usually works.

Generally, if my boss (not as familiar with the commands as I, and
prefers GUI tools where possible) asks me to set down exactly what I
needed to do to get XYZ going, the notes end up looking pretty
prohibitive, but it doesn't take long to guess your way through
things.

ChrisA

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Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2012-01-18 10:00 -0800
  Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan@case.edu> - 2012-01-18 13:30 -0500
  Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2012-01-18 21:16 +0100
  Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-01-18 23:32 +0000
  Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain "Albert W. Hopkins" <marduk@letterboxes.org> - 2012-01-18 19:03 -0500
  Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2012-01-18 19:10 -0800
    Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-01-19 04:36 +0000
      Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-01-19 20:43 +1100
        Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-01-19 10:47 +0000
          Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-01-19 22:05 +1100
          Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain Noah Hall <enalicho@gmail.com> - 2012-01-19 11:08 +0000
          Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain Christian Heimes <lists@cheimes.de> - 2012-01-19 12:16 +0100
          Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-01-19 22:27 +1100
      Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain Benedict Verheyen <benedict.verheyen@gmail.com> - 2012-01-20 10:39 +0100
        Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2012-01-20 09:32 -0800
        Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2012-01-20 13:42 +0200
          Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain Benedict Verheyen <benedict.verheyen@gmail.com> - 2012-01-23 13:42 +0100

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