Comments on: Building python2.6 for Debian Lenny

By: Compiling mod_wsgi For a Custom Python Build | Daniel A. Mayer

Compiling mod_wsgi For a Custom Python Build | Daniel A. Mayer — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 22:59:33 +0000

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By: Daniel A. Mayer

Daniel A. Mayer — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:50:49 +0000

Compiling mod_wsgi For a Custom Python Build…

Recently, I have been working on deploying a pyramid (former pylons) application on a Debian 5 (Lenny) server using mod_wsgi and Python 2.7. Since Lenny only comes with Python 2.5 and third-party Python packages are basically non-existent due to …

By: ArmEagle

ArmEagle — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:18:31 +0000

In the source version I downloaded, python2.6-2.6.6, the suggested ‘tk8.4-dev’ is in the list of Build-Conflicts. I’m trying to compile with the suggested (by the command) -d parameter. But I’m afraid it will just end up messy somewhere.

By: Gawen

Gawen — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:30:16 +0000

Same problem

By: Marian Sigler

Marian Sigler — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:31:58 +0000

I had the same errors Brian had.

“Fix” for the first one (you will have an empty python2.6-doc package with that, but I think that won’t hurt to much)

* comment out `$(MAKE) -C Doc html` in debian/rules in stamps/stamp-doc-html
(around line 470)
* add `mkdir Doc/build/html` instead
* Find `devhelp docs` also in debian/rules and comment out the three commands below (pyhtml2devhelp, gzip and dh_link) in binary-indep (around line 880)

See this thread, too: http://www.mail-archive.com/sphinx-dev@googlegroups.com/msg03024.html

For the install problem: Do the /usr/share/python/debian_defaults thing mentioned above before installation.
For a very clean installation, one might also patch the python-defaults package which contains the debian_defaults file.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:23:31 +0000

Got it to build, but it won’t install. Any tips?

xen2:~# dpkg -i ./python2.6-minimal_2.6.5-1_amd64.deb
Selecting previously deselected package python2.6-minimal.
(Reading database … 84813 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking python2.6-minimal (from …/python2.6-minimal_2.6.5-1_amd64.deb) …
Setting up python2.6-minimal (2.6.5-1) …
Linking and byte-compiling packages for runtime python2.6…
pycentral: pycentral rtinstall: installed runtime python2.6 not found
pycentral rtinstall: installed runtime python2.6 not found
dpkg: error processing python2.6-minimal (–install):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for man-db …
Errors were encountered while processing:
python2.6-minimal

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:58:33 +0000

I got this error. Any idea?

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sphinx/__init__.py”, line 126, in main
confoverrides, status, sys.stderr, freshenv)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sphinx/application.py”, line 83, in __init__
self.setup_extension(extension)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sphinx/application.py”, line 122, in setup_extension
raise ExtensionError(‘Could not import extension %s’ % extension, err)
ExtensionError: Could not import extension pyspecific (exception: No module named writers.html)

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:46:40 +0000

Hence, the information in /etc/apt/sources.list should be the following.

deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:45:17 +0000

Python2.6 is now in unstable and not in experimental any more.

By: Tony Maher

Tony Maher — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:06:01 +0000

python2.6 has moved from experimental to testing so need ot modify the /etc/apt/source.list line accordingly.