Comments on: Building python2.6 for Debian Lenny

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.

By: tomtom

tomtom — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:44:52 +0000

Hmmm. Did not work for me.
I have a Lenny System with

ii python 2.5.2-3 An interactive high-level object-oriented language (default ve
ii python-minimal 2.5.2-3 A minimal subset of the Python language (default version)
ii python2.5 2.5.2-15 An interactive high-level object-oriented language (version 2.
ii python2.5-minimal 2.5.2-15 A minimal subset of the Python language (version 2.5)
ii python2.6 2.6.4-1 An interactive high-level object-oriented language (version 2.
ii python2.6-minimal 2.6.4-1 A minimal subset of the Python language (version 2.6)

But when I try to install a package I get the following error:

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of custompkg:
custompkg depends on python (>= 2.6); however:
Version of python on system is 2.5.2-3.

Any help appreciated.

By: Daenney

Daenney — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:13:50 +0000

D’oh, thanks for that one…

By: Mark Van den Borre

Mark Van den Borre — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:01:20 +0000

Obvious typo:

“dpkg-buikdpackage -us -uc -b” should be “dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -b”

By: Daenney

Daenney — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:24:57 +0000

We do not use httplib2 so I have not tried to compile it yet. I can give it a go somewhere next week.

By: Daenney

Daenney — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:23:12 +0000

To be honest I do not know what can have triggered that error. Since I’m sourcing an experimental package here it might very well be that in the mean time a newer version was uploaded by a member of the debian python team that introduced a few problems inside the debian/rules file.

It’s just a stab in the dark here but that seems most likely to me since it breaks on the rules file.