[CentOS] Upgrading Python with Yum
John R Pierce
pierce at hogranch.com
Mon Mar 22 23:31:29 UTC 2010
Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> AND, you do not want to upgrade python on a CentOS system. You may install
> a newer python in parallel, but never upgrade the system python.
>
indeed. lots of CentOS utilties, including Yum itself, are written in
python, and python has a horrible track record for inter-version
compatibility, what works in 2.4.x is likely very broken in 2.6.x
If you absolutely have to have 2.6 for some user application, I would
compile and install it to run somewhere else, like /usr/local/python26
or /opt/mystuff/python26
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