"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