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justanothernomad
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configure errors

Post by justanothernomad »

hi there.

I'm trying to install vegastrike on Ubuntu14.04 but i get this error when i run configure...

checking for python... configure: error: *** Python version 2.2 or later not found!

aptitude tells me that python2.7 is already installed...

jan@Workhorse:~$ aptitude show python2.7
Package: python2.7
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Multi-Arch: allowed
Version: 2.7.6-8ubuntu0.2
Priority: optional
Section: python
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: i386
Uncompressed Size: 356 k
Depends: python2.7-minimal (= 2.7.6-8ubuntu0.2), libpython2.7-stdlib (=
2.7.6-8ubuntu0.2), mime-support
Suggests: python2.7-doc, binutils
Conflicts: python-profiler (<= 2.7.1-2)
Breaks: python-virtualenv (< 1.7.1.2-2~), vim-athena (< 2:7.3.547-4), vim-gnome
(< 2:7.3.547-4), vim-gtk (< 2:7.3.547-4), vim-nox (< 2:7.3.547-4)
Replaces: python-profiler (<= 2.7.1-2), python2.7-minimal (< 2.7.3-7~)
Provides: python2.7:any
Description: Interactive high-level object-oriented language (version 2.7)
Python is a high-level, interactive, object-oriented language. Its 2.7 version
includes an extensive class library with lots of goodies for network
programming, system administration, sounds and graphics.

Can anybody help?
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Re: configure errors

Post by CLoneWolf »

Hello,

whenever you want to compile software on Debian and derivatives like Ubuntu, you need to install the *-dev companion packages.

If you spot the exact file used for the check, you can then run dpkg -S filename to see what packages provide it; you can also install dlocate to get search results faster (dlocate filename)

On a side note: you mentioned using configure, but the current recommended way is via CMake, as you can read here:
http://wiki.vega-strike.org/HowTo:Compi ... N_on_Linux

HTH
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Re: configure errors

Post by loki1950 »

Welcome there Nomad let us know how it goes as CLoneWolf said you need the -dev versions as well as the libraries them selves the -dev packages content the header files. Thx for the drive by wolf :D

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Re: configure errors

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loki1950 wrote:Thx for the drive by wolf :D
No problem, Shepherd! :D
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