[CentOS] Upgrading Python with Yum

Susan Day suzieprogrammer at gmail.com
Tue Mar 23 11:54:51 UTC 2010


On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 7:31 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>
> wrote:
>
> > If you absolutely have to have 2.6 for some user application, I would
> > compile and install it to run somewhere else, like /usr/local/python26
> > or /opt/mystuff/python26
>
> The IUS Community repository has a newer version of python,
> installable via yum which is located in /opt and doesn't conflict with
> the default python. They've done a pretty good job of packaging this
> in my opinion, and it's basically the best way to get a newer python
> without horribly breaking things.
>

Thank you. This will probably suit my needs.
Susan
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