I have a DSL box (200 MHz), and I want to install fail2ban, and do run f2b, I need to have Python. After reading how to install something on DSL (reminder that I do all through terminal, via SSH), I opened a graphical utility that allows me to install unc files, but at one stage, it told me that I did not have the proper rights (was logged in as a user, not sudo), so I think the system either crash or something since the box went in to Hault mode (had to phone call some one to look at the box and reboot). So my question is, should I just try again to run the install as a sudoer user, and how can I tell if Python was install successfully?

What happens when you type python -v on the command line?

M.

I get "-bash: python: command not found"

Does this mean it didn't install?

That's most likely what it means. To be sure, do this in a terminal:

find /usr -name "python*"

That did nothing. Maybe I installed it wrong?

What method for install are you using?

Did you get any error messages?

Is it possible it got into a non-standard location? (try find / -name "python*" ---run this as root)

I ran that, and here's what I got:

/opt/python
/tmp/mydsl.installed/python
/tmp/mydsl.menu/python

The first one was empty (maybe I created manually a few days ago?).

To run the install, I probably used mydsl-load /path/to/my/extension (from http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index...DSL_Extensions).

From what I can tell, I had mannaged to mount the unc file, however, I never installed Python. I did find a package installing program in DSL under /tmp/mydsl called MyDSL. When I loaded this, it could load the unc file, however, I could never get it to install it. Maybe there is a command line method to install a unc or a uci file?