python distutils in warty

Matthew Miles Clark mmc at obispo.com
Sun Oct 24 01:17:57 UTC 2004


Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 05:13:48PM -0400, mmc at obispo.com wrote:
> 
> 
>>Thanks for the replies.  I don't see the python2.3-dev package in the
>>Synaptic package manager.  Do I need to configure another package
>>repository, or ...?
> 
> 
> "python-dev" is the package you want; it will pull in the appropriate
> versioned package (e.g., python2.3-dev).
> 
> If they don't show up, perhaps you opted not to have access to packages via
> the network during install.  You can enable this in the "Repositories"
> dialog in synaptic.

Thanks to all for the help.  After setting up the repositories in 
Synaptic, I did get python-dev installed & life is good!

BTW, many, many thanks to all on the Ubuntu team for a great distro. 
The hard work shows.

Miles





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