Cowmix wrote: > For my day job I am forced to run RHEL3 (and Centos3 on my desktop). I > want to be able to use a few applications that require Python 2.4.X but > RHEL3 ships with Python 2.2.3. I have tried to install and upgrade > Python 2.4.X many ways like using PyVault and doing a source based > install but each way has been fraught with problems from weird > dependency issues to screwing up 'yum'. > > What is the best way to run multiple version of Python on the same > system? > > thanks!
If installing from source, 'make altinstall' will do everything but link python to (for example python2.4. You can then run 'python2.4' 'python2.3',etc to use a particular version. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
