[issue40367] ImportError: libffi.so.6

YoSTEALTH added the comment: How did you get the Python installed in /opt/python/3.8.1? - I custom installed python. Maybe it was compiled against libffi 6, then you updated the system to libffi 7, so that Python would need a rebuild. - Yes, you are right about this. So i did rebuild and no

[issue40367] ImportError: libffi.so.6

Filipe Laíns added the comment: Éric's assessment seems correct. libffi-3.2 (which provided libffi.so.6) got dropped as a dependency from libffi a few weeks ago. https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/libffi&id=edbab26c1cbebe62bb9a5ef55a5e0eaf3481a399 Add 2 w

[issue40367] ImportError: libffi.so.6

Filipe Laíns added the comment: typo: does the default installation not worlK *does the default installation not work? -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue40367] ImportError: libffi.so.6

Éric Araujo added the comment: How did you get the Python installed in /opt/python/3.8.1? Maybe it was compiled against libffi 6, then you updated the system to libffi 7, so that Python would need a rebuild. -- nosy: +eric.araujo ___ Python tracker

[issue40367] ImportError: libffi.so.6

New submission from YoSTEALTH : >>> /opt/python/3.8.1/lib/python3 setup.py build_ext --inplace Traceback (most recent call last): File "./setup.py", line 1, in from setuptools import setup, find_packages File "/opt/python/3.8.1/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", lin