[CentOS] No module named snack

[Matt Hyclak]

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 08:50:18PM -0400, Matt Morgan enlightened us:
> > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:59:46PM -0400, Matt Morgan enlightened us:
> > > everyone--I'm back on the list after some time not managing any Centos
> > > machines. It's good to be back.
> > >
> > > I'm trying to switch a server from sendmail to postfix. It's Centos 4.6.
> > I
> > > installed postfix and system-switch-mail. When I run system-switch-mail,
> > I
> > > get
> > >
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > >   File "/usr/sbin/system-switch-mail", line 89, in <module>
> > >     main()
> > >   File "/usr/sbin/system-switch-mail", line 76, in main
> > >     from switchmail_tui import mainDialog
> > >   File "/usr/share/system-switch-mail/switchmail_tui.py", line 36, in
> > > <module>
> > >     from snack import *
> > > ImportError: No module named snack
> > >
> > > "Snack" appears to be a python module provided by a package called newt,
> > > which is installed:
> > >
> > > # rpm -qf /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/snack.py
> > > newt-0.51.6-9.rhel4
> > >
> > > What am I doing wrong?
> > >
> >
> > Not using python 2.3 perhaps?
> 
> 
> Good call, looks like python is 2.5 (although the typical 2.3 package is
> installed). Probably, someone else using this machine needed 2.5 at some
> point.
> 
> Let's say we still have a good reason to need python 2.5. Is this going to
> break a lot of the system-whatever commands? Are there any workarounds?
> 

Yeah, the system is built heavily around python. If you still need to have a
different python installed, install it as python25 or something like that. 

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
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Department of Social Work
Ohio University
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