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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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[181662f] | 7 | <!ENTITY python2-download-http
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[549e65f] | 8 | "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/&python2-version;/Python-&python2-version;.tar.xz">
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[27d9434] | 9 | <!ENTITY python2-download-ftp " ">
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[00ff1df] | 10 | <!ENTITY python2-md5sum "57dffcee9cee8bb2ab5f82af1d8e9a69">
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[549e65f] | 11 | <!ENTITY python2-size "12 MB">
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[00ff1df] | 12 | <!ENTITY python2-buildsize "268 MB (additional 17 MB for the tests)">
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| 13 | <!ENTITY python2-time "0.9 SBU (additional 4.8 SBU for tests)">
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[82fac2c] | 14 |
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[181662f] | 15 | <!ENTITY python2htmldoc-download-http
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[1a64240] | 16 | "https://docs.python.org/2.7/archives/python-&python2-version;-docs-html.tar.bz2">
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[bf847d6d] | 17 | ]>
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| 18 |
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[4716d52] | 19 | <sect1 id="python2" xreflabel="Python-&python2-version;">
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[bf847d6d] | 20 | <?dbhtml filename="python2.html" ?>
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| 21 |
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| 22 | <sect1info>
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[4949485e] | 23 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 24 | <date>$Date$</date>
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[bf847d6d] | 25 | </sect1info>
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| 26 |
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| 27 | <title>Python-&python2-version;</title>
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| 28 |
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[4716d52] | 29 | <indexterm zone="python2">
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[82fac2c] | 30 | <primary sortas="a-Python2">Python2</primary>
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[bf847d6d] | 31 | </indexterm>
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| 32 |
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| 33 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 34 | <title>Introduction to Python 2</title>
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| 35 |
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[181662f] | 36 | <para>
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| 37 | The <application>Python 2</application> package contains the
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[82fac2c] | 38 | <application>Python</application> development environment. It is useful
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[181662f] | 39 | for object-oriented programming, writing scripts, prototyping large
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| 40 | programs or developing entire applications. This version is for backward
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| 41 | compatibility with other dependent packages.
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| 42 | </para>
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[bf847d6d] | 43 |
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[df69fbc] | 44 | &lfs7a_checked;
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[bf847d6d] | 45 |
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| 46 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 47 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 48 | <listitem>
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[181662f] | 49 | <para>
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| 50 | Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&python2-download-http;"/>
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| 51 | </para>
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[bf847d6d] | 52 | </listitem>
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| 53 | <listitem>
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[181662f] | 54 | <para>
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| 55 | Download (FTP): <ulink url="&python2-download-ftp;"/>
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| 56 | </para>
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[bf847d6d] | 57 | </listitem>
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| 58 | <listitem>
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[181662f] | 59 | <para>
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| 60 | Download MD5 sum: &python2-md5sum;
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| 61 | </para>
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[bf847d6d] | 62 | </listitem>
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| 63 | <listitem>
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[181662f] | 64 | <para>
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| 65 | Download size: &python2-size;
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| 66 | </para>
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[bf847d6d] | 67 | </listitem>
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| 68 | <listitem>
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[181662f] | 69 | <para>
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| 70 | Estimated disk space required: &python2-buildsize;
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| 71 | </para>
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[bf847d6d] | 72 | </listitem>
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| 73 | <listitem>
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[181662f] | 74 | <para>
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| 75 | Estimated build time: &python2-time;
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| 76 | </para>
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[bf847d6d] | 77 | </listitem>
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| 78 | </itemizedlist>
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| 79 |
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[54ae6b8] | 80 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
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| 81 |
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[5d11f8f] | 82 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 83 | <title>Optional HTML Documentation</title>
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[bf847d6d] | 84 | <listitem>
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[181662f] | 85 | <para>
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[5d11f8f] | 86 | Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&python2htmldoc-download-http;"/>
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[181662f] | 87 | </para>
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[bf847d6d] | 88 | </listitem>
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[fb990982] | 89 | </itemizedlist>
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| 90 |
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[03d30cf] | 91 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Python 2 Dependencies</bridgehead>
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[bf847d6d] | 92 |
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[82fac2c] | 93 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
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| 94 | <para role="recommended">
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[adf6dd9a] | 95 | <xref linkend="libffi"/>
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[82fac2c] | 96 | </para>
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| 97 |
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[bf847d6d] | 98 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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[181662f] | 99 | <para role="optional">
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[9be7202] | 100 | <xref linkend="bluez"/> and
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| 101 | <xref linkend="valgrind"/>
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[82fac2c] | 102 | </para>
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| 103 |
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| 104 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (For Additional Modules)</bridgehead>
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| 105 | <para role="optional">
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[181662f] | 106 | <xref linkend="openssl"/>,
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[82fac2c] | 107 | <xref linkend="sqlite"/> and
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| 108 | <xref linkend="tk"/>
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[181662f] | 109 | </para>
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| 110 |
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[5be3a74] | 111 | <note>
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| 112 | <para>
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[13507eb] | 113 | <!-- new for ff31. Any reasonable version of openssl will do,
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| 114 | even old maintained versions, so do not xref openssl here -->
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[b9f61df] | 115 | If you are building <xref linkend="thunderbird"/> or
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[f3429309] | 116 | <xref linkend="firefox"/>
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[80454f5] | 117 | you must install <application>openssl</application> before you build
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[5be3a74] | 118 | <application>Python 2</application>.
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| 119 | </para>
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| 120 | </note>
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| 121 |
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[181662f] | 122 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
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| 123 | User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/Python"/>
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| 124 | </para>
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[bf847d6d] | 125 | </sect2>
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| 126 |
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| 127 | <sect2 role="installation">
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[03d30cf] | 128 | <title>Installation of Python 2</title>
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[bf847d6d] | 129 |
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[181662f] | 130 | <para>
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[03d30cf] | 131 | Install <application>Python 2</application> by running the following
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[181662f] | 132 | commands:
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| 133 | </para>
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[bf847d6d] | 134 |
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[167a240] | 135 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
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[82fac2c] | 136 | --enable-shared \
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| 137 | --with-system-expat \
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| 138 | --with-system-ffi \
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| 139 | --enable-unicode=ucs4 &&
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[bf847d6d] | 140 | make</userinput></screen>
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| 141 |
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[167a240] | 142 | <para>
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[1a64240] | 143 | To test the results, issue: <command>make -k test</command>.
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| 144 | One test fails for unknown reasons.
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[181662f] | 145 | </para>
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[bf847d6d] | 146 |
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[181662f] | 147 | <para>
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| 148 | Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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| 149 | </para>
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[bf847d6d] | 150 |
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[7224506] | 151 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make install &&
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| 152 | chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libpython&python2-majorver;.so.1.0</userinput></screen>
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[bf847d6d] | 153 |
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[181662f] | 154 | <para>
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[7fe0ce3b] | 155 | Since <application>Python 2</application> is in maintenance mode, and
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| 156 | <application>Python 3</application> is recommended by upstream for
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[8b9b43e] | 157 | development, you probably do not need to install the documentation.
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[7fe0ce3b] | 158 | However, if you still want to install documentation for both
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[8b9b43e] | 159 | <application>Python</application> versions, be sure to define the
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| 160 | <envar>PYTHONDOCS</envar>
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[7fe0ce3b] | 161 | variable for the version you want to use, each time you need to consult
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| 162 | the documentation. If you have downloaded the preformatted documentation
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| 163 | from <ulink url="http://docs.python.org/download.html"/>, install it
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[03d30cf] | 164 | as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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[181662f] | 165 | </para>
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| 166 |
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[23d3543c] | 167 | <screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -dm755 /usr/share/doc/python-&python2-version; &&
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[7b273030] | 168 |
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| 169 | tar --strip-components=1 \
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| 170 | --no-same-owner \
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| 171 | --directory /usr/share/doc/python-&python2-version; \
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| 172 | -xvf ../python-&python2-version;-docs-html.tar.bz2 &&
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| 173 |
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[03d30cf] | 174 | find /usr/share/doc/python-&python2-version; -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} \; &&
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| 175 | find /usr/share/doc/python-&python2-version; -type f -exec chmod 0644 {} \;</userinput></screen>
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[bf847d6d] | 176 | </sect2>
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| 177 |
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| 178 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 179 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 180 |
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[82fac2c] | 181 | <para>
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[00ff1df] | 182 | <parameter>--with-system-expat</parameter>: This switch enables linking
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| 183 | against system version of <application>Expat</application>.
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[82fac2c] | 184 | </para>
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| 185 |
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| 186 | <para>
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[00ff1df] | 187 | <parameter>--with-system-ffi</parameter>: This switch enables linking
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| 188 | against system version of <application>libffi</application>. Remove if
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| 189 | you have not installed <xref linkend="libffi"/>.
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[82fac2c] | 190 | </para>
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| 191 |
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| 192 | <para>
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| 193 | <parameter>--enable-unicode=ucs4</parameter>: This switch enables
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| 194 | 32bit Unicode support in <application>Python</application>.
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| 195 | </para>
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| 196 |
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| 197 | <para>
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[00ff1df] | 198 | <option>--with-dbmliborder=bdb:gdbm:ndbm</option>: Use this switch
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[0d7900a] | 199 | if you want to build <application>Python</application> DBM Module
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[82fac2c] | 200 | against <application>Berkeley DB</application> instead of
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| 201 | <application>GDBM</application>.
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| 202 | </para>
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| 203 |
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[181662f] | 204 | <para>
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[0d7900a] | 205 | <command>chmod ...</command>: Fix permissions for libraries to be
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[181662f] | 206 | consistent with other libraries.
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| 207 | </para>
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[82fac2c] | 208 |
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[bf847d6d] | 209 | </sect2>
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| 210 |
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| 211 | <sect2 role="configuration">
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| 212 | <title>Configuring Python 2</title>
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| 213 |
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[181662f] | 214 | <para>
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| 215 | In order for <command>python</command> to find the installed
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| 216 | documentation, you must add the following environment variable to
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| 217 | individual user's or the system's profile:
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| 218 | </para>
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[bf847d6d] | 219 |
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[03d30cf] | 220 | <screen role="root"><userinput>export PYTHONDOCS=/usr/share/doc/python-&python2-version;</userinput></screen>
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[82fac2c] | 221 |
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[bf847d6d] | 222 | </sect2>
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| 223 |
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| 224 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 225 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 226 |
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| 227 | <segmentedlist>
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| 228 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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[03d30cf] | 229 | <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
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[bf847d6d] | 230 | <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
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| 231 |
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| 232 | <seglistitem>
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[181662f] | 233 | <seg>
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[167a240] | 234 | 2to3, pydoc, python (symlink), python-config (symlink),
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| 235 | python2 (symlink), python2-config (symlink),
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[03d30cf] | 236 | python&python2-majorver;, python&python2-majorver;-config,
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[d0aecd33] | 237 | smtpd.py, and idle
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[181662f] | 238 | </seg>
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| 239 | <seg>
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[03d30cf] | 240 | libpython&python2-majorver;.so
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[181662f] | 241 | </seg>
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| 242 | <seg>
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[fcabde3c] | 243 | /usr/{include,lib}/python&python2-majorver; and
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| 244 | /usr/share/doc/python-&python2-version;
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| 245 | </seg>
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[bf847d6d] | 246 | </seglistitem>
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| 247 | </segmentedlist>
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| 248 |
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| 249 | <variablelist>
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| 250 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 251 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 252 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 253 |
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[62f9a8e] | 254 | <varlistentry id="python2-2to3">
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| 255 | <term><command>2to3</command></term>
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| 256 | <listitem>
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| 257 | <para>
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| 258 | is a <application>Python</application> program that reads
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[00ff1df] | 259 | <application>Python 2.x</application> source code and applies a
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| 260 | series of fixes to transform it into valid
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| 261 | <application>Python 3.x</application> code.
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[62f9a8e] | 262 | </para>
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| 263 | <indexterm zone="python2 python2-2to3">
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| 264 | <primary sortas="b-2to3">2to3</primary>
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| 265 | </indexterm>
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| 266 | </listitem>
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| 267 | </varlistentry>
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| 268 |
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[03d30cf] | 269 | <varlistentry id="idle">
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[bf847d6d] | 270 | <term><command>idle</command></term>
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| 271 | <listitem>
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[181662f] | 272 | <para>
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| 273 | is a wrapper script that opens a <application>Python</application>
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[d0aecd33] | 274 | aware GUI editor. For this script to run, you must have installed
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| 275 | <application>Tk</application> before Python so that the Tkinter
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| 276 | Python module is built.
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[181662f] | 277 | </para>
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[03d30cf] | 278 | <indexterm zone="python2 idle">
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| 279 | <primary sortas="b-idle">idle</primary>
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[bf847d6d] | 280 | </indexterm>
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| 281 | </listitem>
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| 282 | </varlistentry>
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| 283 |
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| 284 | <varlistentry id="pydoc2">
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| 285 | <term><command>pydoc</command></term>
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| 286 | <listitem>
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[181662f] | 287 | <para>
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| 288 | is the <application>Python</application> documentation tool.
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| 289 | </para>
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[4716d52] | 290 | <indexterm zone="python2 pydoc2">
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[bf847d6d] | 291 | <primary sortas="b-pydoc2">pydoc</primary>
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| 292 | </indexterm>
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| 293 | </listitem>
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| 294 | </varlistentry>
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| 295 |
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[181662f] | 296 | <varlistentry id="python">
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[bf847d6d] | 297 | <term><command>python</command></term>
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| 298 | <listitem>
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[181662f] | 299 | <para>
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| 300 | is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming
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| 301 | language.
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| 302 | </para>
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| 303 | <indexterm zone="python2 python">
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[4716d52] | 304 | <primary sortas="b-python2">python</primary>
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[bf847d6d] | 305 | </indexterm>
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| 306 | </listitem>
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| 307 | </varlistentry>
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| 308 |
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| 309 | <varlistentry id="python2-ver">
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| 310 | <term><command>python&python2-majorver;</command></term>
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| 311 | <listitem>
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[181662f] | 312 | <para>
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| 313 | is a version-specific name for the <command>python</command>
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| 314 | program.
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| 315 | </para>
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[4716d52] | 316 | <indexterm zone="python2 python2-ver">
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[b88be39] | 317 | <primary sortas="b-python&python2-majorver;">python&python2-majorver;</primary>
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[bf847d6d] | 318 | </indexterm>
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| 319 | </listitem>
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| 320 | </varlistentry>
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| 321 |
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[03d30cf] | 322 | <varlistentry id="smtpd.py">
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[bf847d6d] | 323 | <term><command>smtpd.py</command></term>
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| 324 | <listitem>
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[181662f] | 325 | <para>
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| 326 | is an SMTP proxy implemented in <application>Python</application>.
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| 327 | </para>
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[03d30cf] | 328 | <indexterm zone="python2 smtpd.py">
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| 329 | <primary sortas="b-smtpd.py">smtpd.py</primary>
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[bf847d6d] | 330 | </indexterm>
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| 331 | </listitem>
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| 332 | </varlistentry>
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[82fac2c] | 333 |
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[bf847d6d] | 334 | </variablelist>
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[82fac2c] | 335 |
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[bf847d6d] | 336 | </sect2>
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[82fac2c] | 337 |
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[bf847d6d] | 338 | </sect1>
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