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Installing and running pypy on linux

I have been attempting to install and run pypy3 on a linux machine but am running into troubles. I have been using pypy on a mac but installed it using homebrew so didn't encounter any of these troubles.

I downloaded the most recent build and unpacked the tar file as described by their documentation. I followed the steps exactly (except replacing pypy with pypy3 and using the appropriate file name). However, when typing

./pypy3-v6.0.0-linux64/bin/pypy3

I get the following error:

./pypy3-v6.0.0-linux64/bin/pypy3: error while loading shared libraries: libbz2.so.1.0: 
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I'm not sure how to interpret this error. Despite the pypy documentation saying that it should run in place, pypy3 filename.py still returns the error:

If 'pypy3' is not a typo you can use command-not-found to lookup the package that 
contains it, like this:
cnf pypy3

But cnf pypy3 only confirms that the pypy3 is not found.

Any help on what I'm doing wrong would be appreciated.

Solution

  • Those distributions are for debian linux only. You may have better luck with the portable binaries if the ones provided by OpenSuse are too old for you.

    Edit: note that you used a link to an old version of the documents, you should have looked here which states "These builds depend on dynamically linked libraries that may not be available on your OS"