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How to install python docs on n900?

How do you install the python documentation (Python2.5 or maybe 2.7)?. apt-get can't find python2.5-docs (correct name?). Some help features are missing without docs installed.

Re: How to install python docs on n900?

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Originally Posted by tfj (Post 1408032)

How do you install the python documentation (Python2.5 or maybe 2.7)?. apt-get can't find python2.5-docs (correct name?). Some help features are missing without docs installed.

Hope it helps :)

Code:

$ apt-cache search python doc

python-libxml2 - Python bindings for the GNOME XML library

python-libxml2-dbg - Python bindings for the GNOME XML library (debug extension)

python-pycurl - Python bindings to libcurl

python2.5-minimal - A minimal subset of the Python language (version 2.5)

python-pygame - SDL bindings for games development in Python

python-lxml - pythonic binding for the libxml2 and libxslt libraries

python-minimal - A minimal subset of the Python language (default version)

python-gdata - Google Data Python client library

python-gobject-dev - Development headers for the GObject Python bindings

raemote - Apple Remote for Mac Mini, MacBook and MacBook Pro

python3.2-doc - Documentation for the high-level object-oriented language Python (v3.2)

python3.2-minimal - Minimal subset of the Python language (version 3.2)

python-pycurl-dbg - Python bindings to libcurl (debug extension)

python2.7-minimal - Minimal subset of the Python language (version 2.7)

python-sphinx - documentation generator for Python projects (implemented in Python 2)

docgenerator - generator plugin for python bindings documentation

renpy-launcher - Launcher of the Ren'Py authoring tools

python2.5-libxml2 - Python bindings for the GNOME XML library

python-xapian - Xapian search engine interface for Python

epydoc-doc - tool for documenting Python modules (documentation)

python-epydoc - tool for documenting Python modules

shiboken-doc - CPython bindings generator for C++ libraries documentation

python2.5-qt4-experimental-doc - Python Qt bindings demos, examples and documentation

python-sympy-doc - Computer algebra system (CAS) in Python.

python-pyglet-doc - Cross-platform windowing and multimedia library.

python-xdg-doc - Documentation for python-xdg

python-gobject-pygi-dev - Development headers for the GObject Python bindings

python2.5-qt4-doc - Python Qt bindings demos, examples and documentation (PR1.2)

python-numpy-doc - NumPy documentation

gtktouch - GTKTouch is a library to extend gtk functionality (very jsefull using by fingers).

python2.5-gnome2-extras-doc - Python bindings for the GNOME desktop environment - documentation

python-gnome2-extras-doc - Python bindings for the GNOME desktop environment - documentation

python-matplotlib-doc - Python based plotting system (documentation package)

ipython-doc - IPython - An interactive computing environment for Python

Re: How to install python docs on n900?

SOLVED (I think)

OK, the correct name for the package is "python2.5-doc". It's
a separate package from the main python2.5 pkg, and appears to be absent from the main Maemo repos.

@saponga: Thanks for the apt-cache search tip, which I hadn't
used; the resulting list, it appears, has no entries for python2.5 general docs.
"apt-get install python2.5-doc" sympathetically says it knows about the package, but has no installation candidate.

@SHARP66: I think you're saying that docs may be routinely purged (by /usr/sbin/docpurge) during package installations and can be re-installed; in the case of Python2.5, though, Maemo may simply not have the docs to install in the first place.

The pymaemo package creators may not have known how essential
it is (for Python's 'topic' and 'keyword' help facilities) to
have certain docs present ('modules' help apparently needs no docs).
I will try to make this point to the maintainers, and ask for a
(stripped?) python2.5-doc to be added to Maemo's repos.

Meanwhile, I manually downloaded a python2.5-doc pkg from
snapshot.debian.org (a 2009 version, as the current version
requires an updated dpkg, etc.), and installed it with
'dpkg -i <deb_pkg_name>'. To keep docpurge's mitts off of the
docs, install them somewhere besides /usr/share/{doc, man, info}, and set the PYTHONDOCS env-variable to your secret spot, or disable (e.g. rename) docpurge (it may also be possible to configure docpurge, a script, to leave Python alone).

So far, it works fine (it's just text, after all). It's nearly
17 Mib, but you probably can delete some of it. I think only the
"ref" and "lib" folders are needed by the interpreter (but that's still nearly 12 Mib). You can rename the other folders (Xdist, Xdoc, etc.), and eventually, if all seems well, delete them, freeing up 5 Mib. Maybe the ref and lib docs can be installed into a compressed squashfs, which may reduce them to under 3 Mib.