On 24 Mar 2007 12:10:12 -0700, 7stud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you explain how that works? If you install python in /usr/local, > doesn't that leave you with something like /usr/local/python? So what > does putting usr/local/bin ahead of your other paths do?
./configure --prefix=/usr/local Then python would be /usr/local/bin/python. For bash put this somewhere near the end of your .bashrc or /etc/bashrc: export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH" Then when you attempt to run the python binary it will be found in the place you installed it first, not where the system version was installed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_%28computing%29 -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
