Ned Deily wrote: > In article <54ebdcfa$0$11100$c3e8...@news.astraweb.com>, > Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> Almost right! >> >> You can install Python from source. Unzip the source tar ball, cd into >> the source directory, and run: >> >> ./configure >> make >> >> BUT do *not* run `make install` as that will overwrite your system Python >> and Bad Things will happen. Instead, run `make altinstall`. > > With no --prefix= on ./configure, the default install location is to > /usr/local, so "make install" would install a link at > /usr/local/bin/python (or python3) and it would only overwrite your > system Python if the system Python happened to be installed in > /usr/local/bin/.
Well, I'm not going to say you are wrong, but I can say that on Centos 5 systems (and presumably that includes Fedora and Red Hat of the equivalent vintage), if you just run `make install` it overwrites the /usr/bin/python hard link to /usr/bin/python2.4. I know because I've done it :-( -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
