[egenix-users] Install on RHEL 4

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Andrew Colasanti wrote:
> I'm trying to install  mx-base for Python 2.3 on RHEL 4 using RPM's. 
> Install goes fine but when I try the examples I get the following
> 
> File "Words.py", line 11, in ?
>   from mx.TextTools import *
> File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/mx/TextTools/__init__.py", line 8, in ?
>   from TextTools import *
> File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/mx/TextTools/TextTools.py", line 13, in ?
>   from mxTextTools import *
> File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/mx/TextTools/mxTextTools/__init__.py",
> line 8, in ?
>   from mxTextTools import *
> ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/mx/TextTools/mxTextTools/mxTextTools.so:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> But that file does exist
>   ll /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/mx/TextTools/mxTextTools/mxTextTools.so
> Gives
> -rwxr-xr-x  /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/mx/TextTools/mxTextTools/mxTextTools.so
> 
> 
> Anyone know what the problems is?  Thanks

There could be two problems:

* the .so file is not set executable

* you are using a Python version that's incompatible with the
  .so file (there are UCS2 and UCS4 versions of Python)

You may need to rebuild the RPMs from the sources.

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