On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:42:28 -0800, John Nagle wrote: > My dedicated hosting provider wants to switch me to a new server with > CentOS 5.3, so I have to look at how much work is required. > > CentOS 5.3 apparently still ships with Python 2.4. Worse, it > requires Python 2.4 for its own internal purposes, and actually > installing Python 2.5 breaks the package manager. There's no supported > RPM for upgrading. > > It's apparently necessary to build Python 2.5 from source, > build all the packages, and debug.
You shouldn't need *quite* that much effort, particularly if you don't care about tkinter. Just use the alternate installation so it doesn't stomp all over the 2.4 installation: .configure make make altinstall You will need root or sudo for that last one. I don't have Centos 5.3, but I have Centos 5, and it seems to work fairly easily for me: $ wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.5.4/Python-2.5.4.tgz ... 18:39:11 (69.6 KB/s) - `Python-2.5.4.tgz' saved [11604497/11604497] $ $ tar xzf Python-2.5.4.tgz $ cd Python-2.5.4 $ ./configure ... $ make ... $ sudo make altinstall Password: ... $ python -V Python 2.4.3 $ python2.5 -V Python 2.5.4 And it all seems to just work for me. > Nor does that "just work". There's > documentation, but some of it is in Japanese. > > http://blog.bashton.com/2008/python-25-rpms-for-rhel-5-centos-5/ I don't understand why you're using documentation for third-party RPMs as evidence that building from source will be troublesome. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
