<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Jim Perrin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jperrin@gmail.com">jperrin@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;">
<div class="im">On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 7:31 PM, John R Pierce <<a href="mailto:pierce@hogranch.com">pierce@hogranch.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> If you absolutely have to have 2.6 for some user application, I would<br>
> compile and install it to run somewhere else, like /usr/local/python26<br>
> or /opt/mystuff/python26<br>
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</div>The IUS Community repository has a newer version of python,<br>
installable via yum which is located in /opt and doesn't conflict with<br>
the default python. They've done a pretty good job of packaging this<br>
in my opinion, and it's basically the best way to get a newer python<br>
without horribly breaking things.<br></blockquote><div><br>Thank you. This will probably suit my needs.<br>Susan <br></div><br></div><br>