On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:54 PM, John R. Dennison <jrd at gerdesas.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 03:46:12PM +0530, Agnello George wrote: > > > > I did a yum install gcc* , then it installed all the required > dependencies . > > > > Then make and make install worked correctly . > > > > Then i had to symbolically link it . > > > > ln -s /usr/local/bin/python2.6 /usr/bin/python > > That's the worst possible "solution" you could have applied. > > The system is completely dependent on the version of python > supplied with it (2.4.3) and by replacing it with 2.6 you > have effectively broken large parts of it. > > Why not just go with the version is EPEL that has been > previously recommended in this thread? It installs > side-by-side with the system supplied python and as such > doesn't break anything. > > There is the added bonus that the EPEL supplied python will > actually get updated. > > > > Ok , I think I will go with the EPEL :) i had done the installation on VM test machine .. Thanks for all the help -- Regards Agnello D'souza -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101005/beea951b/attachment-0005.html>