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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?

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

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

Enjoy the Choice

loki1950 wrote:Thx for the drive by wolf

No problem, Shepherd!