Re: [CentOS] upgrade python to python2.6.4 using yum

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:54 PM, John R. Dennison jrd@gerdesas.com wrote:

On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 03:46:12PM +0530, Agnello George wrote:

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I did a yum install gcc* , then it installed all the required

dependencies .

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Then make and make install worked correctly .

Then i had to symbolically link it .

ln -s /usr/local/bin/python2.6 /usr/bin/python

    That's the worst possible "solution" you could have applied.

   The system is completely dependent on the version of python
   supplied with it (2.4.3) and by replacing it with 2.6 you
   have effectively broken large parts of it.

   Why not just go with the version is EPEL that has been
   previously recommended in this thread?  It installs
   side-by-side with the system supplied python and as such
   doesn't break anything.

   There is the added bonus that the EPEL supplied python will
   actually get updated.

Ok , I think I will go with the EPEL :)

i had done the installation on VM test machine ..

Thanks for all the help