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Sean Bone
Asked: 2014-06-30 03:02:24 +0800 CST

Installing pycairo on Python 3

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I'm trying to install pycairo, but my symlink is sending it to python 2, though it requires 3. How do I get around this error?

# ./waf build
  ./options()
The project was not configured: run "waf configure" first!
root@Archimedes:/home/archimedes/Downloads/pycairo-1.10.0# ./waf configure
  ./options()
Setting top to                           : /home/archimedes/Downloads/pycairo-1.10.0 
Setting out to                           : /home/archimedes/Downloads/pycairo-1.10.0/build_directory 
  ./configure()
Checking for 'gcc' (c compiler)          : ok 
Checking for program python              : /usr/bin/python 
Checking for python version              : (2, 7, 3, 'final', 0) 
The python version is too old, expecting (3, 1, 0)
(complete log in /home/archimedes/Downloads/pycairo-1.10.0/build_directory/config.log)

Is there a way to send it to /usr/bin/python3 instead of /usr/bin/python (the symlink) when it checks for python? Thanks!

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1 Answers

  1. Set the environment variable $PYTHON to the path of the binary you want to use, for example

    export PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3
./waf configure
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