Re: upgrade python to python2.6.4 using yum

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On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:54 PM, John R. Dennison <jrd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 03:46:12PM +0530, Agnello George wrote:
>
> I did a yum install gcc* , then it installed all the required dependencies .
>
> Then make and make install worked correctly .
>
> Then i had to symbolically link it .
>
> ln -s /usr/local/bin/python2.6 /usr/bin/python

       That's the worst possible "solution" you could have applied.

       The system is completely dependent on the version of python
       supplied with it (2.4.3) and by replacing it with 2.6 you
       have effectively broken large parts of it.

       Why not just go with the version is EPEL that has been
       previously recommended in this thread?  It installs
       side-by-side with the system supplied python and as such
       doesn't break anything.

       There is the added bonus that the EPEL supplied python will
       actually get updated.




Ok ,  I think I will go with the EPEL :)

i had done the installation on VM test machine ..

Thanks for all the help



--
Regards
Agnello D'souza


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