Hiya folks,

Yep, it's me again with another adventure.

This time I tried to install 'gajim' from SBo. It had quite a few dependencies, and several of the dependencies had more dependencies. That in itself is fine with me. The problem arose when one of the dependencies says you need to do something to make that dependencie the python 'builder' for the package of gajim.

What it had me do was this:

That was great as I could see in several of the dependencies that needed that, were using it.

Then I got to needing the dependency of protobuf3 and for some reason it didn't build with this python thing. After several other dependencies also died from the exact same error codes, I decided to just give up on gajim.

What I need to know, is what command do I need to do to get my system to go back to using the stock path to python. Anyone happen to know it off the top of their head, please? I'm sure it'll be something similar to the above export, I just don't know where it points to or if it's for python3 or what.

Close your current shell where you did that, or log out and log back in again.

The effect of that command only sets the PYTHONPATH environment variable in the shell where you execute it (and all child processes).

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To illustrate, open up 2 shells (or if you're in run level 3, then log in to 2 different terminals using Ctrl-Alt-F2, Ctrl-Alt-F1).

In the first do
Now in each shell do
Are you surprised by the output? Why?

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Got it. Thank you very much!

That is a build time only requirement (currently) for the SBo python slackbuilds that need the slackbuild packages installed there. There's no reason to have it set otherwise.

Just follow what drumz said.

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