Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.013 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.97; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:Python': 0.05; 'python': 0.08; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229.12': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'received:lo.gmane.org': 0.09; 'configure': 0.10; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.22; 'works.': 0.23; 'command': 0.24; "skip:' 10": 0.29; 'chris': 0.30; 'usually': 0.30; 'header :User-Agent:1': 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'header:X -Complaints-To:1': 0.34; 'things': 0.35; 'install': 0.35; 'run': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.37; "there's": 0.37; 'received:de': 0.39; 'subject:: ': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'most': 0.60; 'chain': 0.66; 'apt-get': 0.84; 'build-dep': 0.84; 'make,': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Christian Heimes Subject: Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:16:49 +0100 References: <4f1708cc$0$1649$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> <4f179db1$0$14012$c3e8da3$76491128@news.astraweb.com> <4f17f4c7$0$29987$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: smtp.semantics.de User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111229 Thunderbird/9.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 17 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1326971824 news.xs4all.nl 6945 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:56722 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:19125 Am 19.01.2012 12:05, schrieb Chris Angelico: > 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. Much easier: $ apt-get build-dep python In general the 'build-essential' package provides almost every part of the build chain (compilers, make, autotools, yacc & friends): $ apt-get install build-essential Christian