What a mess!

[Thomas Weholt]

Perhaps not what you want to hear, but if you're not a fanatic RedHat-user
you might want to try Mandrake Linux instead. The latest version, 9.0, has
Python 2.2.1, Emacs/XEmacs and VIM with python-mode installed and much more.
Very up to date. Never had any trouble with it and it's a breeze to install
( at least in my experience ).

I find it a very python-friendly linux-distro and a good development
platform.

Thomas


<mongo57a at comcast.net> wrote in message
news:3d9e2b8f$1_8 at goliath.newsgroups.com...
> On Redhat 7.3. Downloaded latest Python binaries (rpm) and tried to
install.
> Got lots of errors like:
>
> "file /usr/lib/python2.2/........  from install of python2-2.2.1-1
conflicts
> with file from package python2-2.2-16"
>
> Got the same errors on install or update.
>
> So in my infinite wisdom (or lack of....) I decided to try and uninstall
> Python and start over. So I manually (isn't there a way to automatically
> uninstall ????) deleted the install (directories) for 2.2. That left me
> still with directories for Python 1.5 and Python2.
>
> Started over with an rpm install of 2-2.2.1-1. Got the same errors. There
> must be more going on here than I understand.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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