Multiple python installations on opensuse?

[Ishwor Gurung]

2009/12/17 Johan Ekh <ekh.johan at gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
> I use the finite element package ABAQUS that is partly built around python
> 2.4.3.
> ABAQUS ships with its own version of python 2.4.3 but it comes without third
> party
> libraries, e.g. numpy and scipy. In order to load these modules into ABAQUS
> python
> I must install python 2.4.3. on my opensuse laptop. How can I do this
> without interference
> with my python 2.6 installation that I use for all my non-ABAQUS python
> work?

Go to python.org, and download appropriate source (shjould be one for
2.4 final release).

$ mkdir $HOME/my2.4build/
$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/my2.4build && make && make install;


To run-
$ cd $HOME/my2.4build/bin
$ ./python

I am assuming you've got the C/C++ libraries installed.
-- 
Regards,
Ishwor Gurung