Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Matt Newville" <[email protected]> · Wed, 6 Aug 2008 22:21:32 -0500

Hi Adam,

Sorry for the trouble, and glad you got lots of help!    I'll add a
note to the installation instructions about having to point the
dynamic library loader to the right place (either with setting
LD_LIBRARY_PATH / DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH or by editing ld.so.conf and using
ldconfig).

--Matt Newville <newville at cars.uchicago.edu>

> Hey all, I'm a relative newcomer to both Linux, Python, and Epics, so sorry if this has an easy solution.
> I guess I'm not even sure if it's a problem with Epics itself, or Python, or something else.  I'm having
> some problems getting Python to import the EpicsCA module.  I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy), and
> it's an x86_64 system.  The epics base seems to have installed fine, I put it in /usr/local/lib/epics/base.
> I got the epics module here (http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~newville/Epics/Python/), and again it looked like
> it installed fine to /usr/local/EpicsCA-2.1.5.

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System