[CentOS] Re: Python 2.4 on CentOS4?

Tue Mar 11 22:23:30 UTC 2008
Eric B. <ebenze at hotmail.com>

"Ray Van Dolson" <rvandolson at esri.com> wrote in message 
news:20080311200841.GA19540 at 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 at 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