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PostPosted: Tue Aug 19, 2025 11:57 am    Post subject: Error: Missing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.5 is needed by .. Reply with quote
Running Mandriva 2025.1
Have python 2.5.2 installed.
Would like to have SPE running but get this message:
Code:
[root@localhost tmp]# /usr/share/mc/extfs/rpm run /home/peter/tmp/spe-0.8.4.h-0.2.fc8.noarch.rpm INSTALL
Installing ""'/home/peter/tmp/spe-0.8.4.h-0.2.fc8.noarch.rpm'""
error: Failed dependencies:
   python(abi) = 2.5 is needed by spe-0.8.4.h-0.2.fc8.noarch

[root@localhost tmp]#


I looked at this thread:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ython%28abi%29
and although the rpm is a Fedora 8 one, (& the thread), none of the suggestions seem to apply, (I can't find a Mandriva rpm).

BTW, it worked OK on my 'main' machine with Mandriva 2025.0
Downgrading doesn't seem an option Sad

What is python(abi)?
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 19, 2025 2:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
your link is broken

this post at mandriva forums also seems to suggest that *.rpms are not interchangeable between distros

Python is too major a language for a distro like mandriva to not even have a developers'/enthusiasts' repo somewhere out there, if not a more official rpm

abi = Application Binary Interface



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 19, 2025 5:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm beginning to think you're right, jester.
ALL the rpms for SPE are Fedora based.
Some links I followed showed up as Fedora problems.
Also useful links from you. Thanks Smile

I downloaded the SPE source and note that there isn't an INSTALL included and it expands to several directories. Then I realised that with python there is NO compile! (OK. OK, I'm only just learning python Embarassed ).

So if I copy the _spe directories under python2.5/site-packages it would be available if I can work out how to set up python's paths. Without typing an explicit path to python every time I want to use it, that is.

There seems to be not only PYTHONPATH but also a path internal to python.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 24, 2025 2:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
SPE is in the repos for 2025.1.

tried that?

Code:
[dedanna@dedanna ~]$ urpmq --sources spe
ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.mandriva.com/MandrivaLinux/official/2008.1/i586/media/contrib/release/spe-0.8.2.a_wx2.6.1.0-2mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.mandriva.com/MandrivaLinux/official/2008.1/i586/media/contrib/updates/spe-0.8.4.h-1mdv2008.1.i586.rpm


Code:
[root@dedanna dedanna]# urpmf --description spe
spe:
        Spe is a free Python IDE with auto indentation & completion, call tips,
        syntax coloring & highlighting, UML diagrams, class explorer, source index,
        auto todo list, sticky notes, pycrust shell, file browsers, drag&drop,
        context help and Blender support.

works fine here with python 2.5.2.



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 25, 2025 9:47 am    Post subject: Maybe it's solved - at least one way.... Reply with quote
I e_mailed Stani regarding Pychecker not being found when I run SPE from my ~/ and received this reply:
Quote:
You need to run SPE directly from ~/Download/spe-0.8.4.h/_spe

If you choose to install spe (which is not necessary at all), you should
install pychecker from the repositories of your linux distribution.
However I recommend to run it from your download directory.

If you are using Debian/Ubuntu, you can install spe more easily with:
sudo apt-get install spe

Of course remove the previous installed spe first.
Stani
Op vrijdag 22-08-2008 om 11:08 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Peter
Holmes:
> ~/Download/spe-0.8.4.h/_spe
I'll happily accept Stani's instructions but puzzled as to why it can't be installed and accepted in the usual directories. Confused

BTW, I did install Pychecker from 2025.1 repositories and still get the same error. Sad
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 25, 2025 2:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Did you install the rest from the repos? SPE itself?

I'm assuming not?



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 26, 2025 7:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
DedannaRocks! wrote:
Did you install the rest from the repos? SPE itself?

I'm assuming not?
Originally you're quite correct.
However now I've reloaded 2025.1 from scratch + LAMP + SPE all seems to be fine.
Thanks Smile
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 26, 2025 4:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yep, Mandriva's one of those distros, that if you go to outside sources, it may work, and it may not. Razz



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 27, 2025 3:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Mandriva used to be Mandrake, which was a part of Redhat.
Now they are a separate distribution from the parent.
Kind of how Ubuntu is Debian based, but yet is not compatible with Debian.



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