Re: [rdiff-backup-users] installation on Suse 9.2

[Charles Duffy]

Dave Howorth wrote:
> Charles Duffy wrote:
>   
> > Dave Howorth wrote:
> >     
> > > --prefix=/usr/local
> > >       
> > Well, yeah. You manually specify a prefix that's not in Python's default
> > sys.path, and you're going to get the issue you see here.
> >     
>
> Could you expand a bit on that, please?
>
> I'm not sure what you think I should be doing.
>   

Leave the "--prefix=/usr/local" off your "python setup.py install" command.

Python modules will only be found if they're in a location in sys.path. 
You can change this to include additional locations (say, via a site.py 
file); however, if you're not feeling up to anything fancy, Python 
modules will only be found if they're installed in one of the locations 
listed by the command
 python -c "for path in __import__('sys').path: print path"
...which typically *won't* list anything under /usr/local. So, since 
anything under /usr/local isn't in your default sys.path, telling Python 
to install a module there means that it won't be found.