[lxml-dev] Ubuntu Installation Woes

Richard Alex Hofer javagamer at mac.com
Fri Jul 25 12:56:16 CEST 2008


That's what puzzles me, I installed python-lxml, then removed it (but
did nothing to remove the dependencies), and it still wouldn't let me
build it.  I'm guessing it's because the current version in the Ubuntu
repository is very old.
On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 13:53 +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 06:43:45AM -0400, Richard Alex Hofer wrote:
> > Thanks a bunch for the advice.  I had assumed the problem had to do with
> > gcc and that there where so many errors that you only needed the end of
> > the log.
> 
> With gcc errors usually you need the start of the log.
> 
> A trick for getting all the build dependencies of some package that has
> a (older, presumably) version in Ubuntu is to run
> 
>   sudo apt-get build-dep python-lxml
> 
> before you start your own build.
> 
> Marius Gedminas
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