Re: more on binary install of basin remote

On a Gentoo system, Python 2.5 is still masked as being a package in
"testing". This means that without some reconfiguration, you won't be able
to install it by using emerge.

Since a lot of Gentoo tools rely on Python, if James tells you that you will
need to upgrade to Python 2.5, I would suggest downloading Python source and
compiling it and installing it in your home directory.

I know that most of our development machines do have Python 2.5, so it may
be the case that the binaries rely on 2.5. Otherwise, if you compile from
source, 2.4 should be fine.

~doug

On Jan 16, 2008 12:56 PM, Michael S. Vogeley <msv23@drexel.edu> wrote:

> Followup to previous install test, after trying suggestion from James.
>
> Bottom line: is python2.5 required for basin remote?
>
> [insert in previous report, after basin_start.sh failed]
>
> TRY AGAIN 1/16/08
>
> run export as before to set paths
> also execute (this instruction now on the web page)
> export PATH=/home/vogeley/bin/basin/bin:$PATH
> so it can find
> /home/vogeley/bin/basin/bin/ipcontroller
>
> scripts/basin_start.sh -n 2 -p 10105
> yields error messages
> == Basin Client Paths ==
> Scripts Path: /home/vogeley/bin/basin/scripts
> which: no visit in
>
> (/home/vogeley/bin/basin/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.1:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.1:/opt/blackdown-
> jdk-1.4.2.03/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03
> /jre/bin:/home/vogeley/bin:/home/vogeley/xgobi/src)
> VisIt Path:
> ========================
> which: no visit in
>
> (/home/vogeley/bin/basin/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.1:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.1:/opt/blackdown-
> jdk-1.4.2.03/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03
> /jre/bin:/home/vogeley/bin:/home/vogeley/xgobi/src)
> scripts/basin_start.sh: /home/vogeley/bin/basin/bin/ipcontroller:
> /usr/bin/python2.5: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
> Error launching the controller, exiting.
>
> I think this means it just can't find python. I see
> /usr/bin/python2.4 but not 2.5
> Do I need to update python to 2.5?
>

>
> emerge --pretend python
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild U ] dev-python/python-docs-2.4.4 [2.4.3]
> [ebuild U ] dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r6 [2.4.3-r4] USE="-examples%
> -nothreads%"
> [ebuild N ] app-admin/python-updater-0.2
>
> Hmm. Which version would it install? Doesn't look like 2.5
>
>
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Received on Wed Jan 16 12:42:58 2008