Re: FC16 installation problems fixed

From: Justin Riley <no email>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 23:14:07 -0400

Hi Mark,

Awesome, thanks for your notes. I'll add them to the docs.

~Justin

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 01:00:28PM -0400, Mark Stock wrote:
> Here is some information I learned when installing StarCluster
> for the first time. I am posting it here to benefit any other new
> users who aren't able to find help for these problems.
>
> I am running Fedora 16 and installing StarCluster-0.93.3 using
> the instructions on
> http://web.mit.edu/star/cluster/docs/latest/installation.html
>
> % sudo yum install gmp-devel
>
> ...
> warning: GMP or MPIR library not found; Not building
> Crypto.PublicKey._fastmath.
>
> This is solved with
>
> % sudo python setup.py install
>
> Then, the following error shows up:
>
> Processing pycrypto-2.6.tar.gz
> Running pycrypto-2.6/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir
> /tmp/easy_install-BtQN0_/pycrypto-2.6/egg-dist-tmp-Mghnk3
> src/_fastmath.c:31:20: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or
> directory
> compilation terminated.
> error: Setup script exited with error: command 'gcc' failed with
> exit status 1
>
> And this can be solved with
>
> % sudo yum install python-devel
>
> These packages are not standard Fedora, and I haven't ever needed
> them despite developing scientific software for over a decade.
>
> Mark
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