[yt-users] OpenSuse Install Troubles

[Matthew Turk]

Hi Nick,

This looks a bit odd to me.  I think in fact there's likely a breakage
in your installation of Python.  Can you send me (off-list) your
yt_install.log, and I'll reply on-list with more?

-Matt

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Nicholas Earl <nchlsearl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I've been trying to stick yt on an opensuse box, and I've run into a kind of
> funky error when it attempts to install mercurial-2.2.2. I just wanted to
> see if perhaps anyone has hit this wall before?
>
>     user_base = getuserbase() # this will also set USER_BASE
>   File "/home/nearl/yt-x86_64/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 243, in
> getuserbase
>     USER_BASE = get_config_var('userbase')
>   File "/home/nearl/yt-x86_64/lib/python2.7/sysconfig.py", line 520, in
> get_config_var
>     return get_config_vars().get(name)
>   File "/home/nearl/yt-x86_64/lib/python2.7/sysconfig.py", line 419, in
> get_config_vars
>     _init_posix(_CONFIG_VARS)
>   File "/home/nearl/yt-x86_64/lib/python2.7/sysconfig.py", line 287, in
> _init_posix
>     raise IOError(msg)
> IOError: invalid Python installation: unable to open
> /home/nearl/yt-x86_64/lib/python2.7/config/Makefile (No such file or
> directory)
>
> The directory /config does not exist. I've attempted to install the
> python-devel package, along with the python-setuptools-devel package, but
> they didn't seem to help at all.
>
> I haven't worked with opensuse before, so it's quite possible that this may
> be a platform-dependent issue. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Nick
>
>
>
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