[CentOS] Re: Python 2.4 on CentOS4?

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 04:01:52PM -0400, Eric B. wrote:
> "Eric B." <ebenze at hotmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:fr6o2t$5jf$1 at ger.gmane.org...
> > Hi,
> >
> > Has anyone managed to find a Python 2.4 rpm binary that can be installed 
> > on CentOS4?  I'm running CentOS4.6 and an application that I want to use 
> > required python 2.4 or greater.  All the CentOS/RHEL4 python rpms that I 
> > find are all for python 2.3.  I can't seem to find anything that works 
> > with CentOS4 libs.
> 
> Ok - I may have been a little quick to post this.  I finally found Python 
> 2.4 on python.org (don't know why i couldn't find it the first time I 
> checked there).
> http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.4/rpms/
> 
> However, it doesn't upgrade python 2.3, but installs alongside.
> 
> If I try to upgrade python 2.3 to 2.4, am I just asking for trouble?

Yeah.  Just do the side-by-side thing I'd say and make your scripts
reference /usr/bin/python2.4 ...

Ray