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Setting up Python 2.5 on Apache2 in Debian Etch

I'm trying to deploy SVN django on Debian Etch with my little project. It requires Python 2.5, so I tried installing it together with the Apache2 module (libapache2-mod-python). Unfortunately the version in Debian Etch is linked with Python 2.4, so after installing and configuring all works except for Python 2.5-specific stuff. Obviously this is not what I want.

I tried installing libapache2-mod-python from testing:

Code:

# apt-get -t testing install libapache2-mod-python

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

The following extra packages will be installed:

  python python-central python2.4

Suggested packages:

  libapache2-mod-python-doc python-tk python-profiler python2.4-doc

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  libapache2-mod-python python python-central python2.4

0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Need to get 0B/3121kB of archives.

After unpacking 11.3MB of additional disk space will be used.

Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

Obviously not what I wanted.

Do you have any ideas how to solve this, except for compiling all from source (nightmare to maintain...)?

Temporarily 'solved' the problem by compiling just mod_python against python2.5-dev. Not the greatest solution but it works.

I have tried the recompile on Etch but it is failing, any suggestions out there?

Code:

cd /opt/

mkdir mod_python2.5

cd mod_python2.5/

apt-get source libapache2-mod-python

cd libapache2-mod-python-3.2.10/

./configure --with-python /usr/bin/python2.5

...

...

...

checking for Apache libexec directory... /usr/lib/apache2/modules

checking for Apache include directory... -I/usr/include/apache2

checking for --with-python... yes

checking Python version... yes: invalid option -- c

Try `yes --help' for more information.

yes: invalid option -- c

Try `yes --help' for more information.



configure: error: This version of mod_python only works with Python major version 2. The one you have seems to be .

What is going on that Python cannot tell us/gcc its version?

mod_python compiled against Python2.5

EDIT: Although this all seemed to go down fine and installed OK, the errors still happened on the website that it was looking for Python2.4... with help from 'wols' in the #debian IRC channel on Freenode I was able to get the sources and recompile the package officially, which still gave these errors. Currently I am just dist-upgrading this minimal server to Lenny and hoping it will work there once all is done... I left this howto (below) for reference anyways.

Original Post:
In my last post I had an error in my ./configure line; this post is to correct that and say how I finished this, for any future readers.

The configure line should have looked not like this:

Code:

./configure --with-python /usr/bin/python2.5

but like this (with an = sign):

Code:

./configure --with-python=/usr/bin/python2.5

and I also made sure to compile against Apache2 more fully, like this:

Code:

./configure --with-apxs=/usr/bin/apxs2 --with-python=/usr/bin/python2.5

Then I wanted to install it with checkinstall to make a pseudo-debian package, but checkinstall isn't available in Etch, so I had to get its sources from Lenny:

Code:

vim /etc/apt/sources.list

add these lines:

Code:

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib

deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib

update the system and get the sources packages into /opt/checkinstall:

Code:

mkdir /opt/checkinstall

cd /opt/checkinstall

apt-get update

apt-get source checkinstall

cd checkinstall-1.6.1/

less INSTALL

According to the INSTALL file I need to run 'make, make install, checkinstall' but that failed until I installed Ruby 1.8 for Etch...

I first removed the two new lines for Lenny sources in /etc/apt/sources.list that I had put there for the checkinstall sources:

Code:

vim /etc/apt/sources.list

Comment out these lines by adding a # in front:

Code:

# deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib

# deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib

Then, I build and installed checkinstall:

Code:

apt-get update

apt-get install libgettext-ruby1.8 libgettext-ruby-util

make

make install

checkinstall

then, I built and installed the .deb for mod_python:

Code:

cd /opt/mod_python2.5/libapache2-mod-python-3.2.10/

./configure --with-apxs=/usr/bin/apxs2 --with-python=/usr/bin/python2.5

make

checkinstall

Finally, I restarted Apache2:

Code:

apache2ctl -t

apache2ctl -k graceful

ps auwx |grep apache