---------------------------- On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 4:55 PM CEST Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 01:11 am, Φώντας Λαδοπρακόπουλος wrote: > >> Τη Κυριακή, 26 Απριλίου 2015 - 6:05:50 μ.μ. UTC+3, ο χρήστης Steven >> D'Aprano έγραψε: >> On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 01:00 am, Φώντας Λαδοπρακόπουλος wrote: >> >> > Hello, >> > >> > Can you please tell me how to install latest Python 3.4.x without >> > disturbing the other default python v2.7.5 intallation that i currently >> > have on my VPS server and access it as Python 3? >> > >> > Thank you. >>> Not unless you tell us more about your setup. >> What operating system? Linux, OS X, Unix, Windows? >> 32-bit or 64-bit OS? >> Do you have root/Administrator access to the machine? >> If you are running Windows, do you have a C compiler? >> Have you read the instructions on the Python web site? >> >> -- >> Steven >> >> >> Yes, sure: >> >> CentOS 7.1 >> x64 bit >> Root Access to the VPS > >(1) Go here: > >https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-342/ > >(2) Choose the source distribution you want. Save it to your hard drive on >the server you will be working on. > >(3) Unpack the file. Do you need help with unpacking? > >(4) cd into the unpacked directory. Read the README file. Any questions? > >(5) Run these three commands from the unpacked directory as a regular user, >not root: > > ./configure > make > make test > > >(6) Take careful note of any errors from those commands. Some warnings and >errors may be harmless. Feel free to ask about them here. You may prefer to >ignore normal output and only see errors: > > ./configure > /dev/null > make > /dev/null > make test > /dev/null > > >If there are any errors you do not understand, STOP! Read the README file >again. Does that tell you how to fix the problem? If not, ask for help >before proceeding. > > >(7) When you are satisfied that everything is okay run this: > > sudo make altinstall > > >or if you prefer: > > su > make altinstall > > >(8) Test that everything works as expected by running these two commands: > > python -c "import sys; print sys.executable" > > python3.4 -c "import sys; print(sys.executable)" > > >You should see something like this: > >/bin/python2.7 >/usr/local/bin/python3.4 And also (if you did not read the 'make test' results carefully), e.g.: python3.4 -c "import sqlite3" Useful link: https://github.com/yyuu/pyenv/wiki/Common-build-problems I always assume that failing win* (eg winsound) and startfile tests are no problem on linux. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
