Gokhan,<br><br>Thank you for the referred repo. I'll keep this as a reference for future endeavours should I fail given my current approach. As for installing Python 2.6.4, that was very easily done as a parallel installation as I described. I'm more than happy to give you more details if you need them.<br>
<br>-Kirk<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Gökhan Sever <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gokhansever@gmail.com">gokhansever@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 7:07 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rkdelisle@gmail.com" target="_blank">rkdelisle@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
An application package that I have requires Python 2.6 and NumPy.<br><br>I've installed Python 2.6 in a parallel manner as follows:<br><br>NO modification of the core Python2.4 in /usr/bin has been done. Rather, I installed Python 2.6 under /opt/Python_2.6.4 and modified my user (not root) environment variables appropriately. The directory /opt/Python_2.6.4 was modified with chown to give me rwx access.<br>
<br>To install NumPy, I've downloaded the latest .tgz sources (v1.3.0) to build. When I attempt to configure/build I receive various errors related to blas and lapack. The NumPy configuration is searching /usr/lib, /usr/lib64, /usr/local/lib, and /usr/local/lib64 for various blas, lapack, and atlas libraries. Within /usr/lib64 I do find a few lapack and blas and lapack libraries installed (libblas.so.3.1.1 and liblapack.so.3.1.1), but configure is not finding them. No atlas libraries are found, but my understanding is that these are deprecated anyway.<br>
<br>As an alternative, I tried to install NumPy using the standard Python 2.4.3 using yum install NumPy but I receive an error saying that NumPy is obsoleted by PyNumeric. What?? PyNumeric is the precursor to NumPy. So even in the most basic instance, I cannot install NumPy because a deprecated library is seen as higher priority? Even given the generally out of date nature of CentOS this is unrealistic.<br>
<br>Finally, I could try to build blas and lapack myself, but this seems to border on insanity.<br><br>Any help is appreciated.<br><br>-Kirk<br></blockquote></div></div><div><br>I had success installing NumPy 1.3 to two of our RHEL 5.x (x86) machines using the pre-built packages from this repository: <br>
<a href="http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ashigabou/CentOS_5/" target="_blank">http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ashigabou/CentOS_5/</a><br><br>RHEL 5.x serie has Python 2.4.3 by default as you mentioned. Installation of NumPy et. al is far easier in Fedora (mine is still at version 11) from the source check-out plus manual installation of dependencies. I haven't tried installing a Python 2.6.x to RHEL machines. I would like to see an update from if you succeed with the mentioned repository.<br>
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