i386 with PAE or AMD64 on PowerEdge with 4G RAM

[Mike Meyer]

In <86d4zpj6m3.fsf at dwp.des.no>, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> typed:
> Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df at mired.org> writes:
> > I find that extremely ironic. I've spent most of the last two days
> > trying to put together a Linux system with python 2.5 (or later) and
> > lxml 1.2 (or later), because I need to add an oracle library to it.
         ^^^
> > While both FreeBSD and darwin ports (where I do development) have all
> > the appropriate bits except oracle, the Linux distros don't have any
> > of them in their packaging systems.
> Bollocks.

No, that taste in your mouth is crow.

> des at des ~% cat /etc/lsb-release 
> DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
> DISTRIB_RELEASE=7.04
> DISTRIB_CODENAME=feisty
> DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 7.04"
> des at des ~% uname -m
> x86_64
> des at des ~% python --version
> Python 2.5.1
> des at des ~% sudo apt-get install python-lxml
[...]
> Unpacking python-lxml (from .../python-lxml_1.1.2-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
> Setting up python-lxml (1.1.2-1ubuntu2) ...
			    ^^^^^

> Any more nonsense you wish to share?

The only nonsense here is that you apparently think 1.1.2 is later
than 1.2. 1.2 is the earliest version of lxml with XInclude support,
and I need that. The package you just installed doesn't have
it. Ubuntu 7.04 with python 2.5.1 and lxml 1.1.2 was one of the
distros I checked (and by far the best Linux system of the bunch), and
it isn't up to the job at hand.

	<mike
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