install older Python version parallel

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On Jun 11, 8:50 am, "S. Dornseifer" <s.dornsei... at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> The situation:
> I wrote a GUI, based on Python, TkInter and Pmw.
> It runs perfectly fine with Python 2.4 (providing, TkInter and Pmw are
> installed). But it crashes with Python 2.6. I tried this on MacOSX11.4
> and various Linux Distributions.
> Crashes occurs when I activate a Pmw.Diaog (I guess this is due to a bug
> in the installed blt package), also when I use setitems on
> Pmw.OptionMenu (I guess this is due to another package, associated with
> tcl/tk).
>
> The target:
> I have to get my GUI work under openSUSE 11.1 (x86_64).
>
> My plan:
> On my openSUSE 11.1 (x86_64), Python 2.6 is installed by default.
> I would like to know, how to install Python 2.4 along with TkInter and
> Pmw (and packages that are required by them), parallel to the existing
> Python 2.6. So that I do not break other software that depends on Python
> 2.6.
>
> If you can think of another plan, I would be also glad to discuss it.
>
> Cheers,
> Simon

I suspect you want to install python 2.4 and then reinstall 2.6  I did
that in windows and I don't understand why it wouldn't work in linux