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On 5/9/23 11:50 AM, Roland Lutz wrote:
> On Mon, 8 May 2023, karl AT aspodata DOT se [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]
> wrote:
>> checking for a Python interpreter with version >= 2.7... none 
>> configure: error: no suitable Python interpreter found
> 
> 
> The gEDA/gaf dependencies are listed in README:
> 
>> - CPython 2.7 >= 2.7.16 <https://www.python.org/downloads/>
> 
> 
> You'll find version 2.7.18 under "Python releases by version
> number".
> 

I recall having this problem as well even though the requisite version
was installed. For some reason the ./configure script couldn't find it.
I seem to remember using some option to tell it where to look. Digging
into the old email outbox I find that I posted something here last October:

> It has been just long enough since I did this with Fedora that the
> details are starting to fade. As I recall I had to set that PATH
> variable to the well known place that the script should have found.
> 
> $ which python /bin/python
> 
> Then it puked later where it insisted on a 2.? version. So I
> installed two versions to keep it happy.
> 
> 
> I also had to configure without the file change detection because I
> couldn't find anything to meet those requirements.



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