Which Python should I install (and how) when using msys2?
While the current official Python version is 3.6, msys2 provides two packages for python3
:
-
msys/python3
, currently using 3.4 -
mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-python3
, currently uses 3.5
So which version should I use, when and how? Can't I just use Windows 3.6 and tell me to use that somehow pacman
? Or can I get 3.6 working on msys / mingw'd version and also use that on Windows so I don't need two / three installations?
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This is what I use on msys2 to install python3:
$ pacman -Syuu
Close and restart msys2.
$ pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-python3-bsddb3 mingw-w64-x86_64-gexiv2 mingw-w64-x86_64-ghostscript mingw-w64-x86_64-python3-cairo mingw-w64-x86_64-python3-gobject mingw-w64-x86_64-python3-icu mingw-w64-x86_64-iso-codes mingw-w64-x86_64-hunspell mingw-w64-x86_64-hunspell-en mingw-w64-x86_64-enchant
To deal with this error "No intltool or version <0.25.0, build_intl is canceling" do the following:
$ pacman -S intltool
Add them to test:
$ pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-python3-lxml $ pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-python3-jsonschema
Run this command to check if python3 is installed correctly:
$ python3 --version
Python 3.6.4
See https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gramps_for_Windows_with_MSYS2 for details
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