[BangPypers] Updating Python 2.3.4 to 2.6.1 on RHEL 4

[Ashutosh Narayan]

Worked for me. Thanks !

 
~ Ashutosh



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>From: Anand Balachandran Pillai <abpillai at gmail.com>
>To: Ashutosh Narayan <ashulinux at yahoo.com>; Bangalore Python Users Group - India <bangpypers at python.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 5:06 PM
>Subject: Re: [BangPypers] Updating Python 2.3.4 to 2.6.1 on RHEL 4
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>On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Ashutosh Narayan <ashulinux at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>Hi,
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>>I wrote a script that involves "subprocess" module ; and when I ran it
>>on  a production server I found that due to older version of Python 2.3.4
>>my script failed to execute.
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>>I have the following python version on one of the RedHat servers.
>>Python 2.3.4 (#1, Feb 18 2008, 17:17:04)
>>[GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-9)] on linux2
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>>Now, the concern is of updating Python version to 2.6.1 w/o effecting
>>other things eg: system-config-* on RedHat machine which are dependent
>>on current Python version 2.3.4
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>>So far I have downloaded the source tar ball, untarred it and NOT yet executed -
>>./configure --prefix=/opt where I want it to land. Can I now run make, make install ?
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>>Any inputs on whether this is the right way to do withoutoverriding current default Python ?
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>1.  Install to a different prefix on the system (/usr/local/, /opt etc).
>2.  Use virtualenv 
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>Thank you,
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>>~ Ashutosh Narayan
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>--Anand
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