[CentOS] python26-memcached on centOS 5.5

Sun Feb 12 02:15:39 UTC 2012
Ian Forde <ianforde at gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:40 AM, Anand Jeyahar
<Anand.Jeyahar at demandmedia.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>  thanks a lot. Turns out that rpm is just a place holder.. i figured out the rpm -qpil command and realized i had to build from  source. got it(memcached) running now.
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> Subject: [CentOS] python26-memcached on centOS 5.5
>
> Hi,
>   Is anyone here running memcached + python2.6 + django setup on a CentOS 5.5?? Am trying to set one up here and have trouble with the python26-memcached installation.
> So far i have installed (via yum):
>
>      1.python26
>      2. python26-memcached
>      3. libevent
>      4. memcached-devel
>
>   Now when i try to run `import memcache`  from the python2.6 shell i get an ImportError: No module named memcache.
> The python26 installation picks up other modules(django etc..) fine. So there's no configuration problem from python26 interpreter.
>
> I am not able to figure out the problem. Any ideas/suggestions? Is building from source my only way out??

uh... 'yum install memcached' would have done it...