"Ray Van Dolson" <rvandolson@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:20080311200841.GA19540@xxxxxxxxxxx
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 09:06:00PM +0100, Tim Verhoeven wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Ray Van Dolson
>> <rvandolson@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 03:55:06PM -0400, Eric B. wrote:
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > Has anyone managed to find a Python 2.4 rpm binary that can be
>> > installed on
>> > > CentOS4? I'm running CentOS4.6 and an application that I want to
>> > use
>> > > required python 2.4 or greater. All the CentOS/RHEL4 python rpms
>> > that I
>> > > find are all for python 2.3. I can't seem to find anything that
>> > works with
>> > > CentOS4 libs.
>> > >
>> >
>> > I think pyvault (google for it) may be your best bet as far as a
>> > somewhat clean RPM-based implementation. However, I don't know how
>> > maintained it is and the docs for getting it set up correctly were
>> > pretty non-existent last time I checked.
>> >
>> > Maybe someone knows of a "better" way.
>>
>> I don't but I strongly suggest that you do NOT replace the base python
>> packages with a newer version. A lot of core tools (like yum) depend
>> on python. So replace the base python package with a newer one could
>> very well break your complete system. As Eric suggests find a way to
>> install python 2.4 besides the core python in a seperate place so you
>> don't start mixing them.
>
> Yeah, definitely a can of worms. I will note that the pyvault RPM's do
> seem to have a lot of packages geared towards keeping functionality
> working -- including making use of 'alternatives'. I've tried it and
> everything appeared to work, but.. who knows? :)
Yeah - that is actually a problem I am having. I'm having trouble with the
"alternatives" link that it has placed as /usr/bin/python. I've been
struggling to use "alternatives" to point /usr/bin/python to
/usr/bin/python2.3, but just can't seem to understand how this
"alternatives" pkg works.
Does anyone have experience with it?
Tx,
Eric
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