[CentOS] Need Python3 for C6

[James A. Peltier]

----- Original Message -----
| I need Python 3.4 (latest) on CentOS 6 for development purposes
| (teaching programming).
| 
| Need advice for best method to do this. I am concerned about not
| breaking the internal plumbing of C6. I was thinking about installing
| it into /opt.
| 
| I noticed  http://puias.math.ias.edu/data/puias/computational  has
| 3.3
| but I need 3.4 (asyncio module). Wondering if anyone has tried
| python3
| from puias repo ? Does it break anything?
| 
| Also, found
| http://toomuchdata.com/2014/02/16/how-to-install-python-on-centos/
| 
| Any advice welcome.
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Outside of SCL you can also look into the modules environment packages, which allow you to temporarily override the base system dynamically.  We use this to maintain several version of libraries that do not come with the OS or are newer than those provided by the OS to build production software pipelines for various research tools.

It's a pretty nice system ;)

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James A. Peltier
Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group
Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus
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