[Numpy-discussion] installation problems: stupid question (original) (raw)

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Wed Jun 14 13:54:28 EDT 2006

Eric Emsellem wrote:

Hi,

I just switched to Suse 10.1 (from Suse 10.0) and for some reason now the new installed modules do not go under /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ as usual but under /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ (the "local" is the difference). How can I go back to the normal setting ?

You can edit ~/.pydistutils.cfg to add this section:

[install] prefix=/usr

However, Suse probably made the change for a reason. Distribution vendors like to control /usr and let the user/sysadmin do what he wants in /usr/local . It is generally a Good Idea to respect that. If the Suse python group is not incompetent, then they will have already made the modifications necessary to make sure that /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages is appropriately on your PYTHONPATH and other such modifications.

thanks a lot for any input there.

Eric P.S.: I seem to then have problem with lapacklite.so (undefined symbol: scat) and it may be linked

I don't think so. That looks like it might be a function that should be in libg2c, but I'm not sure.

-- Robert Kern

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