Dnia Tue, 05 Apr 2005 21:21:37 +0000, Edward Diener napisal(a): > I can install Python 2.4 on the Fedora 3 Linux system, but after I do a > number of Linux utilities and commands, like yum, stop working because > they were dependent on the Python 2.3 installation. What happens is that > Python 2.4 replaces the /usr/bin/python module with the Python 2.4 > version. If I replace /usr/bin/python with the Python 2.3 version > executable, which is still on my system, that all the aforesaid modules > depend on, they start working again, but I can no longer execute > modules, like IDLE, which was part of my Python 2.4 distribution. > > What is the solution to this ? The operating system was installed with > Python 2.3 and the development libraries but no tools, doc, or > otherwise. I have installed Python 2.4 with all the RPMs and copied down > the Python 2.4 documentation to my machine ( since python24-docs.rpm > gives one very little ). I would naturally like to use Python 2.4 > without killing all the commands that depend on Python 2.3. No doubt > these commands have their modules in the site libraries for Python 2.3. > Of course I would love to update these dependencies to use Python 2.4 > but newer RPMs for these commands do not exist. > > I do not know whether this is a Python problem or a Fedora 3 problem but > I thought I would ask here first and see if anybody else had the same > problem. I imagine the problem might exist on other Linux systems.
It's rather Fedora related, I have Python 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4 on my Ubuntu box and they seem to coexist without problems. If you can afford breaking package dependencies a bit, save a copy of python2.3 binary somewhere and recreate it after installing Python 2.4, OR make a symbolic link /usr/bin/python to /usr/bin/python2.3 and use /usr/bin/python2.4 explicitely when you want to use the newer version. You may also try to link modules from /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages to /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages (all or just few of them) - most should be upwards compatible. It may make Fedora utilities work again (you haven't provided error messages, so it's hard to tell) even with Python 2.4. -- Przed siebie idziesz i zabijasz | http://apcoln.linuxpl.org Nic nie czujac w serce sztylet wbijasz | http://biznes.linux.pl ----------------------------------------| http://www.juanperon.info JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.naszedzieci.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
