[ale] 2 version of python loaded?

[jknapka at earthlink.net (Joseph A Knapka)]

Cade Thacker wrote:

> Hi Ho Kermit the Frog here, anyway,
> 
> I am trying to install a program called solfege(anybody else used it? it
> is a music program solfege.sourceforge.net). Solfege is saying I need
> python2.1 on my machine. I know ZERO about pythong except it is an OO type
> scripting language, but I noticed that in my /usr/bin there was two
> pythons, python1.5 and python2.1 and /usr/bin/python is a hard link to
> python1.5.
> 
> Ok so the obvious answer is to re-link python to python2.1, but that
> "seems" to break some libraries namly the new /usr/bin/python can not find
> gtk.py which in in /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk.py.
> 
> Anybody got a suggestion? Should I just relink /usr/bin/python and relink
> /usr/lib/python2.1/site-packages to /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages.
> Smells like a hack.


You probably just need to reinstall Pygtk and (maybe) Pygnome

<URL: http://www.daa.com.au/~james/pygtk/>

after making Python2.1 the default interpreter (which ought to
happen just by linking /usr/bin/python to python2.1).

HTH,

-- Joe
   Using open-source software: free.
   Pissing Bill Gates off: priceless.


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