On Jul 17, 2006, at 8:55 AM, Ben wrote:
I need to upgrade Python to at least 2.3.5, (but 2.4.3 would probably be better), to run Zope & Plone.
Is it possible to replace the current version without breaking anything? or should I run two versions in parallel?
What's the best way to go about doing this?
RHEL (and thus CentOS) depends heavily upon Python for lots of apps, utilities etc.; as such, i'd recommend against altering the system Python. i haven't done what you are trying to do, but i did end up installing another Python on a CentOS 3 machine in order to get DenyHosts working (it needs at least Python 2.4) in /usr/local/python24.
on the other hand, the indefatigable Karanbir seems to have built RPMS of Zope 2.8.0 and Plone 2.1.2; they're available from his repository:
http://centos.karan.org/el4/extras/stable/i386/RPMS/index.html
will those work for you?
-steve
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