Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Sa, den 11.12.2004 schrieb Neal Becker um 23:30: > >> Anyone know if it should be safe to install devel python2.4 rpms onto >> FC3? > > If you want to break a fair part of what makes Fedora Fedora ... > > For serious, don't do it. Why do you want or even do you need to? > python.org has 2.4 RPMs which shall be candidates to be installed in > parallel to the system Python, so not exchanging the important Python > 2.3.4 parts FC3 comes with. > > Alexander > > I'm trying to install on x86_64. python.org 2.4 SRPMs are not correct for x86_64, they don't build due to confusion over /usr/lib64. There are quite a few patches in rawhide python 2.4, and I don't know what they are all for, so I was hoping that I could just use the 2.4 version as-is. I guess I could take the rawhide version, modify configure to use altinstall (or whatever it was called to install under alt name), then modify the spec so that it doesn't overwrite /usr/bin/python.