<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Akemi Yagi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amyagi@gmail.com">amyagi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">

In a package-based distro like CentOS, installing from tarballs is<br>
strongly discouraged. Please also take a look at:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/SourceInstalls" target="_blank">http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/SourceInstalls</a><br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote>Yeah I know. Thanks for the link. I've tried this:<br><br>yum --enablerepo=centosplus upgrade python<br><br>but that just told me everything was ok with the current installation, not what I'm after. So I think I should try c5-testing, but all I get is this:<br>
<br>[c5-testing]<br>name=CentOS-5 Testing <br>baseurl=<a href="http://dev.centos.org/centos/$releasever/testing/$basearch/">http://dev.centos.org/centos/$releasever/testing/$basearch/</a><br>enabled=0<br>gpgcheck=1<br>gpgkey=<a href="http://dev.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-testing">http://dev.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-testing</a><br>
<br>How do I incorporate this and where? Next I'll try building an rpm if I must.<br>TIA,<br>Susan<br></div>