[Stackless] Ubuntu installation problem

[Simon Pickles]

Stephan Diehl wrote:
> Simon,
>
> this has nothing to do with stackless whatsoever :-)
>   
Apart from it being a non-standard python installation on a Distro which 
relies heavily on Python ;) Thats why I reckoned a Stackless user would 
know the answer to my problem.
> On Linux, the 'PATH' /usr/local/bin is searched before /usr/bin.
> Therefore, your stackless is found earlier as THE python executable.
> My strategie is to name the stackless python executable 'stackless' 
> or 'spython'.
>   

Oh look... they did! :p

many thanks
> Stephan
>
> Am Montag, 7. April 2008 08:57:06 schrieb Simon Pickles:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm running Ubuntu Hardy 8.04.
>>
>> I built and installed Stackless with the default settings. This gave me
>> a stackless python installation in /usr/local/bin/python, but still the
>> original at /usr/bin/python.
>>
>> This is fine with me, but has seen a small problem with my system. For
>> some reason, the system is using the stackless version to run its
>> utilities like system-config-printer-gnome
>>
>> This causes it to get confused (the python path is wrong).
>>
>> How can I tell my system to use the default installation at
>> /usr/bin/python?
>>
>> Thanks for any advice.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Simon
>>
>> ps: this shows wat is occurring at present:
>>
>> simon at simon-linux:~$ /usr/bin/python
>> Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Mar 12 2008, 13:36:25)
>> [GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu4)] on linux2
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>
>> simon at simon-linux:~$ /usr/local/bin/python
>> Python 2.5.2 Stackless 3.1b3 060516 (release25-maint:62083, Mar 31 2008,
>> 13:17:11)
>> [GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu6)] on linux2
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>
>> simon at simon-linux:~$ python
>> Python 2.5.2 Stackless 3.1b3 060516 (release25-maint:62083, Mar 31 2008,
>> 13:17:11)
>> [GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu6)] on linux2
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>     
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