On 28 Jan, 22:28, Yansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I asked my hosting company if they would upgrade Python on my server > to the latest version. They responded with: > > "Sorry no. We tend to stick with what comes packaged with the unix > distribution to ease maintenance issues.
Which version are they running, by the way? > There is nothing stopping you from running your own version of python > from within your own account. Download the source and compile it and > install it into your own space. Adjust the fist line of your python > scripts to reflect the location of YOUR python binary: > > #! /home/youraccount/yourlibs/python > > and you should be all set." This sounds like reasonable advice, I suppose. > The build instructions for Python are: > To start building right away (on UNIX): type "./configure" in the > current directory and when it finishes, type "make". This creates an > executable "./python"; to install in usr/local, first do "su root" and > then "make install". > > The problem is, I don't have root access to the server so I can't do > the "make install". I think that the "su root" stuff is just there in anticipation of people trying to configure, build and install Python without thinking too hard about it and then finding that they get lots of errors about installing into places they don't have permissions for. If you're installing into a different location, you only need to have permissions to write to that location. > I have ubuntu on my computer, but from what I understand I can't > compile it on that and upload it because the server > runs Red Had and the ./configure would have made it incompatible > right? If you have shell access on the hosting service and they have compilers available, you can just do the build and install there. Building on your own computer and having the executable work on the server is likely to be more difficult due to the usual library versioning issues that arise between distributions - it'd be interesting to see if anyone can suggest a solution for this involving the LSB tools. > So how can I build Python without root access? Something like this: mkdir /home/youraccount/apps # optional - see below ./configure --prefix=/home/youraccount/apps make make install Here, the apps directory in your home directory will contain the usual UNIX directory structure that you would otherwise see in /usr: directories such as bin, lib, share (probably), and so on. You'll find the python executable as /home/youraccount/apps/bin/python. Some people like to mimic the full UNIX structure and have a usr directory (either underneath or instead of the apps directory employed above); others prefer to have the bin, lib (and other directories) in their home directory (thus omitting the apps directory); you get to choose. ;-) I hope this helps! Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
