Issues installing Python 2.7
billyfurlong at gmail.com
billyfurlong at gmail.com
Wed Nov 26 12:09:30 EST 2014
Hi all,
Not a python user but I'm trying to upgrade python so I can install pip which is required for one of the apps that I'm installing.
I've tried to install using the below instructions, but when I type python I still get the old 2.4.3 version. Oh Red Hat 5.8 is where I'm installing on.
yum groupinstall "development tools" -y
yum install readline-devel openssl-devel gmp-devel ncurses-devel gdbm-devel \
glib-devel expat-devel libGL-devel tk tix gcc-c++ \
libX11-devel glibc-devel bzip2 tar tcl-devel tk-devel pkgconfig \
tix-devel bzip2-devel sqlite-devel autoconf db4-devel libffi-devel \
valgrind-devel -y
mkdir tmp
cd tmp
wget http://python.org/ftp/python/2.7.5/Python-2.7.5.tgz
tar xvfz Python-2.7.5.tgz
cd Python-2.7.5
./configure --prefix=/opt/python2.7 --enable-shared
make
make altinstall
Add this to the bashrc
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/python2.7/bin/
Now the installation worked fine but shouldn't I see that it's using the correct version???
I also did try to run /opt/python2.7/bin/python2.7 and it give me this.
[root at wmy machine bin]# python2.7
python2.7: error while loading shared libraries: libpython2.7.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Please help the newb. He's frustrated.
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