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Asked: 2026-05-23T00:21:50+00:00

After so much of hassle i build the libxml from source . I performed

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After so much of hassle i build the libxml from source. I performed following steps

  1. Downloaded the lxml.tar.gz and extracted its contents
  2. Build it using

python2.7 setup.py build_ext -i -I /usr/include/libxml2 --with-xslt-config=/opt/xslt/bin/xslt-config

  1. I tried going in python shell and tried import lxml . it didn’t worked

  2. Then i went into directory

    /home/user/tmp/(extracted lxml directory/

and on linux command prompt i typed

PYTHONPATH=src python27

then i tried import lxml and then it worked.

src folder conatains folder name lxml

So i want to know that when i build the lxml does it mean that i always need that directory to use it or i can delete that. If not then in which location do i need to put that folder so that if i run python normal way then i can access that

  1. Does the modules which we build ourselves are not installed in python folder??
  2. Can i make python egg from it
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  1. Editorial Team

    You told it to build_ext, so it just compiled it and didn’t install. If you told it to install, it would install it in system-wide directory (but you need write permissions for that) or whatever directory you specify (with --home (for installing as user) or --prefix (for installing as root to non-standard directory like under /opt) option).

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