On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 08:24:01PM +0530, Sanjay Arora enlightened us:
I need to install Python 2.4.2 for installing Zope. What is the location for python that should be given in the ./configure --prefix directive?
/usr/lib is for python libraries..isn't it and thats where I find most of python installed except for the python binary in /sbin
Should I uninstall the normal python installed in Centos 4.2 by default before installing from source?
Can someone guide me about how to create a source rpm for Python & Zope and where to find the spec files? Please note that this is my first attempt at building rpm of any kind, so please give me links accordingly. I would like to maintain latest stable release of Python & Zope and if possible, build their rpm and contribute the same to centos contrib repo, since I will be building it anyway. Please guide. I will also need someone to test the rpm, before releasing into contrib, if it is wanted.
First, messing with Python on a Redhat system is likely to break lots of things like the system-config-* scripts, yum, and a handful of other things. Generally not a good idea.
Second, you might check out pyvault (http://www.python.org/pyvault/) as they've already done the hard part for you.
Matt