The Python package contains the Python development environment. This is useful for object-oriented programming, writing scripts, prototyping large programs or developing entire applications.
Download (HTTP): http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.4/Python-2.4.4.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/linux/mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/Python-2.4.4.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 0ba90c79175c017101100ebf5978e906
Download size: 7.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 110 MB
Estimated build time: 1.0 SBU (additional 2.6 SBU to run the test suite)
OpenSSL-0.9.8d, Tk-8.4.13, and GDBM-1.8.3
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/Python
Install Python by running the following commands:
patch -Np1 -i ../Python-2.4.4-gdbm-1.patch && ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared && make
To test the results, issue: make test.
Now, as the root user:
make install
There is no documentation installed using the instructions above. However, There are LaTeX sources included with the distribution. See the Doc/README file in the source distribution for instructions to format the LaTeX sources. Alternatively, you can download preformatted documentation from http://www.python.org/doc/current/download.html.
Last updated on 2007-01-26 17:28:31 -0600