On 7/22/06, Alfred von Campe <alfred at 110.net> wrote: > Any luck installing a parallel version of Python? If so, can you > post the recipe? The following is for CentOS 4.3 - I'm going to have to do it all again for CentOS 3.x soon, unless my VPS provider starts supporting 4.x before my project deadline :-( The following gets everything but tkinter working with Python 2.4.3 #0. You need the basics, eg. gcc, gcc-c++, vim-enhanced, wget etc. There's some other stuff on this install, so if you still have problems I can give you some more info. #1. I installed yum packages in this order (and accepted the dependencies). No doubt not all of these are needed, but I don't know which ones are safe to avoid and I just need to get something up and working to develop on ASAP. zlib-devel libjpeg-devel freetype freetype-devel tcl tcl-devel tk tk-devel #2. Build Python 2.4.3, with all defaults ./configure make make install #3. Build PIL - not sure if you need this, but I do for Plone). Instructions as per the PIL README. For your reference, I have included the following output - note tkinter is working (it wasn't for me until I added the tcl, tcl-devel, tk and tk-devel packages). /usr/local/bin/python setup.py build_ext -i ... -------------------------------------------------------------------- PIL 1.1.5 BUILD SUMMARY -------------------------------------------------------------------- version 1.1.5 platform linux2 2.4.3 (#3, Jul 23 2006, 18:03:51) [GCC 3.4.5 20051201 (Red Hat 3.4.5-2)] -------------------------------------------------------------------- --- TKINTER support ok --- JPEG support ok --- ZLIB (PNG/ZIP) support ok --- FREETYPE2 support ok -------------------------------------------------------------------- ... I don' t think the selftest.py will work through SSH on a system without xwindows, but I don't know enough Python to know for sure - in any case, it reported only one error, but for all I know it just gave up at the first step. #4 Install Zope & Plone - You're probably not interested in this. Plone's site setup page now shows PIL v1.1.5 (instead of reporting an error) I haven't had a chance to verify this yet. > Also, I'd like to be able to package the whole > thing up as a (relocatable) RPM, but I've never build my own RPM. So > before I go re-inventing the wheel, I'd like to leverage the > collective experience of this group. Sorry, I don't have experience with building RPMs. HTH, Ben please CC me as I use digest.