Well, actually, this is a DEBIAN problem, not a python problem per se.
/usr/lib/python2.5/Site.py has been patched as follows:
FOR DEBIAN, this sys.path is augmented with directories in /usr/local.
Local addons go into /usr/local/lib/python<version>/site-packages
(resp. /usr/local/lib/site-python), Debian addons install into
/usr/{lib,share}/python<version>/site-packages.
This is not the default python install behaviour (and nor should it be). Obviously I now need to get round this, and will, but actually I reckon this is an ubuntu problem that needs to push back to DEBIAN ...
Well, actually, this is a DEBIAN problem, not a python problem per se.
/usr/lib/ python2. 5/Site. py has been patched as follows:
FOR DEBIAN, this sys.path is augmented with directories in /usr/local. lib/python< version> /site-packages lib/site- python) , Debian addons install into share}/ python< version> /site-packages.
Local addons go into /usr/local/
(resp. /usr/local/
/usr/{lib,
This is not the default python install behaviour (and nor should it be). Obviously I now need to get round this, and will, but actually I reckon this is an ubuntu problem that needs to push back to DEBIAN ...