Yeah, sorry I should have added more data. You will need to go to rhn.redhat.com and either download the RPM or get the url.
So you would do: (1) download the rpm to your home directory rpm -Uvh nameOfRPM or (2) grab the url rpm -Uvh http://urlOfRPM either way should update your python. Dont be distressed if you need to update or install new RPMs. On 3/8/07, ying lcs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 3/8/07, Sick Monkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you tried to upgrade the current python RPM? > > rpm -Uvh .... > > You can also build from source. Once you get Python 2.4 up and running I am > pretty sure you can do a symbolic link on the python 2.3 application (either > in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin) and point it to the 2.4 python file. > I get '$rpm -Uvh python' error: open of python failed: no such file or directory but when I do '$rpm -q python ' , I get python -2.3.4-14.1 > On 8 Mar 2007 13:13:13 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > i am using red hat enterprise 4. It has python 2.3 installed. What is > > the best way to upgrade to python 2.4? > > > > I think one way is to compile python 2.4 from the source, but I can't > > remove the old one since when i do 'rpm -e python', i get error like > > 'failed dependencies'. > > > > Thank you for any idea. > > > > -- > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > > >
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