"Ray Van Dolson" rvandolson@esri.com wrote in message news:20080311200841.GA19540@esri.com...
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 09:06:00PM +0100, Tim Verhoeven wrote:
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Ray Van Dolson rvandolson@esri.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 03:55:06PM -0400, Eric B. wrote:
Hi,
Has anyone managed to find a Python 2.4 rpm binary that can be
installed on
CentOS4? I'm running CentOS4.6 and an application that I want to
use
required python 2.4 or greater. All the CentOS/RHEL4 python rpms
that I
find are all for python 2.3. I can't seem to find anything that
works with
CentOS4 libs.
I think pyvault (google for it) may be your best bet as far as a somewhat clean RPM-based implementation. However, I don't know how maintained it is and the docs for getting it set up correctly were pretty non-existent last time I checked.
Maybe someone knows of a "better" way.
I don't but I strongly suggest that you do NOT replace the base python packages with a newer version. A lot of core tools (like yum) depend on python. So replace the base python package with a newer one could very well break your complete system. As Eric suggests find a way to install python 2.4 besides the core python in a seperate place so you don't start mixing them.
Yeah, definitely a can of worms. I will note that the pyvault RPM's do seem to have a lot of packages geared towards keeping functionality working -- including making use of 'alternatives'. I've tried it and everything appeared to work, but.. who knows? :)
Yeah - that is actually a problem I am having. I'm having trouble with the "alternatives" link that it has placed as /usr/bin/python. I've been struggling to use "alternatives" to point /usr/bin/python to /usr/bin/python2.3, but just can't seem to understand how this "alternatives" pkg works.
Does anyone have experience with it?
Tx,
Eric