thanks guys, the solution for me was
python2.4 setup.py install --prefix=/usr/local cheers, AZ On Jun 14, 11:00 am, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this- cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:30:09 -0700, Alexzive wrote: > > what to change in order to get "python" calling python 2.4.3 instead of > > 2.6.4 (at least during python setup.py build)? > > That will do bad things to your system, which will be expecting the > system Python to be 2.6 and instead will be 2.4. You will probably find > system tools will start to fail. > > > I suppose I need something like changing the link to /usr/local/bin/ > > python.. > > but I fear to do something bad by myself.. please help! > > Yes, that will do it, but if you do, you will probably break things. Best > to just call the python2.4 binary directly. > > If you call > > python2.4 > > from the command line, what happens? > > -- > Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list