Re: Installing Python 2.4 on Linux

2005-04-09 Thread Edward Diener
John Ridley wrote: * Edward Diener wrote: I need python to be python2.3 else many utilities no longer work. Then leave your 2.3 installation exactly as it is (so that python is a link to python2.3) and run python2.4 where needed. To specifically use python 2.4 to run IDLE, simply type in a shell:

Re: Installing Python 2.4 on Linux

2005-04-09 Thread John Ridley
* Edward Diener wrote: > I need python to be python2.3 else many utilities no longer work. Then leave your 2.3 installation exactly as it is (so that python is a link to python2.3) and run python2.4 where needed. To specifically use python 2.4 to run IDLE, simply type in a shell: [user]$ python2

Re: Installing Python 2.4 on Linux

2005-04-08 Thread Edward Diener
Joseph Garvin wrote: Another solution is to just install 2.4 and then make an alias for yum='/usr/bin/python2.3 yum' or whatever the path is :) If it were just 'yum' under Fedora 3, I could probably do that but looking at the dependencies on the python2.3 package in Synaptic there must be about 5

Re: Installing Python 2.4 on Linux

2005-04-08 Thread Joseph Garvin
Another solution is to just install 2.4 and then make an alias for yum='/usr/bin/python2.3 yum' or whatever the path is :) Edward Diener wrote: > I can install Python 2.4 on the Fedora 3 Linux system, but after I do > a number of Linux utilities and commands, like yum, stop working > because they

Re: Installing Python 2.4 on Linux

2005-04-08 Thread Edward Diener
John Ridley wrote: --- Edward Diener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] I do not know whether this is a Python problem or a Fedora 3 problem but I thought I would ask here first and see if anybody else had the same problem. I imagine the problem might exist on other Linux systems. On my Mandrake

Re: Installing Python 2.4 on Linux

2005-04-08 Thread Edward Diener
David Fraser wrote: Edward Diener wrote: I can install Python 2.4 on the Fedora 3 Linux system, but after I do a number of Linux utilities and commands, like yum, stop working because they were dependent on the Python 2.3 installation. What happens is that Python 2.4 replaces the /usr/bin/python

Re: Installing Python 2.4 on Linux

2005-04-06 Thread David Fraser
Edward Diener wrote: I can install Python 2.4 on the Fedora 3 Linux system, but after I do a number of Linux utilities and commands, like yum, stop working because they were dependent on the Python 2.3 installation. What happens is that Python 2.4 replaces the /usr/bin/python module with the Pyt

Re: Installing Python 2.4 on Linux

2005-04-05 Thread Simon John
Marcin Stepnicki wrote: > It's rather Fedora related, I have Python 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4 on my Ubuntu > box and they seem to coexist without problems. It's not a Fedora problem at all. The 2.4.1 RPM's just move the default /usr/bin/python symlink to point to the new Python24 instead of Python23 that

Re: Installing Python 2.4 on Linux

2005-04-05 Thread Edward Diener
Marcin Stêpnicki wrote: > Dnia Tue, 05 Apr 2005 21:21:37 +, Edward Diener napisal(a): > >> I can install Python 2.4 on the Fedora 3 Linux system, but after I >> do a number of Linux utilities and commands, like yum, stop working >> because they were dependent on the Python 2.3 installation. Wha

Re: Installing Python 2.4 on Linux

2005-04-05 Thread John Ridley
--- Edward Diener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > I do not know whether this is a Python problem or a Fedora 3 problem > but > I thought I would ask here first and see if anybody else had the same > > problem. I imagine the problem might exist on other Linux systems. On my Mandrake 10.1 sys

Re: Installing Python 2.4 on Linux

2005-04-05 Thread Marcin Stępnicki
Dnia Tue, 05 Apr 2005 21:21:37 +, Edward Diener napisal(a): > I can install Python 2.4 on the Fedora 3 Linux system, but after I do a > number of Linux utilities and commands, like yum, stop working because > they were dependent on the Python 2.3 installation. What happens is that > Python

Installing Python 2.4 on Linux

2005-04-05 Thread Edward Diener
I can install Python 2.4 on the Fedora 3 Linux system, but after I do a number of Linux utilities and commands, like yum, stop working because they were dependent on the Python 2.3 installation. What happens is that Python 2.4 replaces the /usr/bin/python module with the Python 2.4 version. If