[Visualpython-users] Visual Python Linux install problems (fwd)

A new user sent this to me. Can anyone offer advice that I could pass on? 
(He first uninstalled Python 1.5.2 and installed Python 2.0, because the 
VPython web site led him to believe that he needed to do this. I've changed 
the wording on the Linux download page to make it clear that we don't have 
a Python 2.0 version yet, though it is being worked on.)

> I re-installed Python 1.5.2 and went ahead and tried installing VP on
> linux  (mandrake 7.0) and it had trouble finding the Numeric module, even
> though I  had just installed it.  Do I need to rebuild 1.5.2 from source
> with the  numeric module included?
>
> or
>
> should I install Python 2.0, Numeric, build it from source, and then put
> on  VP?  I would like to use 2.0 but want to know if it is even going to
> work. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.