Another solution is to just install 2.4 and then make an alias for yum='/usr/bin/python2.3 yum' or whatever the path is :)
Edward Diener wrote: > 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. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
