up2date, python install issues.

["Brian K. Jones" <jonesy@CS.Princeton.EDU>]

Hi,

I don't have a lot of experience in dealing with python installs.  I
remember playing with it a very long time ago, and it was extremely
easy, however, I'm now running into some issues.

I first installed every rpm that had python in its name on my redhat
7.2 box, because they were all dependencies of the newer version of
up2date.  However, after finally installing the up2date rpm without
error, running up2date gives the error 'ImportError line 10 in ?
module string not found' or something very close to that.  I have no
idea why I got that error, but I tried exporting PYTHONHOME and
PYTHONPATH and all of that didn't change anything.

I uninstalled all of the rpms, including up2date, and installed
python from source.  Installation went fine, but now I can't install
ANYTHING that requires python (up2date, anaconda, etc), because it
complains that it needs /usr/bin/python.  Well, /usr/bin/python is
present!  What's up with that?  I ran updatedb, thinking maybe it was
using locate to find python or something (I doubted it, but why else
would it not find something that is physically there?).   Apparently,
these rpms aren't detecting the python install at all, because it
also complains that python >=1.5-whatever is needed, and I've
installed python 2.2 - for which an executable resides in /usr/bin!

Any clues why this would NOT be found?
--

Brian K. Jones
System Administrator
Dept. of Computer Science, Princeton University
jonesy@cs.princeton.edu
Voice: (609) 258-6080
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