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Re: [LUG] Installing XChat 2.4.6 from source

 

On Thursday 22 June 2006 22:05, Julian Hall wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've put a request in the forums on xchat.org about this but wondered
> if you could possibly throw any light on it?
>
<snip>
> distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError: invalid Python installation:
> unable to
> open /usr/lib/python2.3/config/Makefile (No such file or directory)
>

Looks like you don't have the python development package installed. It'll be 
python2.3-dev if you're running Debian, probably python-dev under RH/Fedora 
and clones.

Regards,
David.

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