Hi, I need to run Blender 2.49b due to some legacy scripts that won’t run on >2.5.
I have installed the Distro (Linux Mint) version of Blender, but need to add Blender 2.49b.
There are two versions of 2.49b for my machine which is 64 bit running Linux Mint.
One is built with Python 2.5 and the other is built with Python 2.6.
My machine’s distro installed Python 2.6, Python 2.7 and Python 3.2, so I installed the Python 2.6 version. This starts with the following error:
./blender
Compiled with Python version 2.6.2.
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Checking for installed Python... No installed Python found.
Only built-in modules are available. Some scripts may not run.
Continuing happily.
Additionally, when I try to run the legacy code, I get the following:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/home/dave/Apps/blender-2.49b-linux-glibc236-py26-x86_64/.blender/scripts/pantograph.py", line 37, in <module>
import pantographLib
File "/home/dave/Apps/blender-2.49b-linux-glibc236-py26-x86_64/.blender/scripts/pantographLib.py", line 29, in <module>
import pantographConfig
File "/home/dave/Apps/blender-2.49b-linux-glibc236-py26-x86_64/.blender/scripts/pantographConfig.py", line 1, in <module>
import sys, os
ImportError: No module named os
Obviously I need to tell Blender where to find Python 2.6.
Can someone assist me?