[SC.LUG] special treatment of /usr/local on linux.

[John Southern]

On Monday 24 July 2006 10:51, David Holden wrote:

>    Ubuntu (and fedora) have some system config apps that use python.
> e.g.
>  gnome-app-install
>  Any ideas?

Which version of Ubuntu? Early Warty had a problem with missing distutils 
which was needed for some of the configuration stuff.

/usr/local is the correct default path as set in 
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-sys.html

Is there a chance you have installed Firefox 1.5? and not the Ubuntu patched 
firefox? If so, it may be worth removing FF1.5, installing FF1.07 (Ubuntu 
version) then installing FF1.5 in a separate location.

Regards
John