Kai Schaetzl wrote: > AND, you do not want to upgrade python on a CentOS system. You may install > a newer python in parallel, but never upgrade the system python. > indeed. lots of CentOS utilties, including Yum itself, are written in python, and python has a horrible track record for inter-version compatibility, what works in 2.4.x is likely very broken in 2.6.x 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