On 15/12/15 04:16, Amber "Hawkie" Brown wrote:
There is a solution to this, and Nick Coghlan has mentioned it to me many times -- Software Collections for RHEL and CentOS. Software Collections is RH's answer to "new software" on "stable distributions" -- SCLs operate side-by-side with system packages, so it won't break anything. Since you're a CentOS 6.7 user, the standard SCL should work (it's 6.5+).
I really disliked the SCLs when I looked at it. The supported use-case seems to be a kind of hugely over-engineered set of wrapper/environment setup scripts: scl enable python2.7 pip install blah ...ad infinitum. Personally - and I guess for others as well - the SCLs will be off-putting. It's a shame there isn't a simpler solution, namely EPEL python2.7 - having a 2nd python in a different path is quite safe, we do it routinely. It's hugely annoying that RHEL6 and derivatives missed out on Python 2.7 :o(