On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: > Oh, wow, is my system hosed now.... Yes, for sure! Replacing the system's python is a pretty bad idea these days, as many of RedHat's tools depend on it. > I am going to either have to find 2.5 that I can install on Centos (from a > Fedora box), but that will most likely break even more things. Yes it will. Restore the one from CentOS by reinstalling the CentOS RPM with --force. > Or get him to build a Centos box and do the build there... You can do that on your own box (after you fix it). Just get the source rpm (.src.rpm) file, install the "rpm-build" package, and then use the "rpmbuild" command to build the package. Basically the steps to configure rpmbuild to work on your machine are: $ mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/{BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS} $ echo '%_topdir %(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild' >~/.rpmmacros And then to rebuild a source rpm: $ rpmbuild --rebuild xxxxxx.src.rpm By the way, do we already have something on CentOS Wiki to help people build their own RPMs? I think this would be helpful, since it's not that easy to find that information from the man pages and documentation. HTH, Filipe