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python install question
From: Aaron Leininger <rilian4 () hotmail com>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:53:23 -0800
I have been upgrading some of my boxen to 4.85beta3. I have one test box that I use that has no GUI installed. I used the ./configure --without-zenmap option on this box to speed up the compile since I had no use for zenmap in this case. I know zenmap uses python but I was surprised to find that the regular install of nmap from source now requires python and python-dev to be installed in order to successfully complete. The ndiff script at the end of the 'make install' command is where the failure was. I got: invalid Python installation: unable to open /usr/include/python2.5/pyconfig.h After installing python2.5-dev, ndiff was successfully installed and thus the 'make install' threw no errors. I guess it would have been nice to have the ndiff part of 'make install' throw a cleaner error. My python installation was perfectly valid, just missing the dev package. After looking at what setup.py is doing in the ndiff sub-folder, am I right in thinking that it is python itself that is throwing this error? Will that make it harder to alter how it appears? Unfortunately, I forgot to preserve the entire output from 'make install' so that is making it harder to trace back. Aaron _________________________________________________________________ Get more out of the Web. Learn 10 hidden secrets of Windows Live. http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!550F681DAD532637!5295.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_domore_092008 _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
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