Issues installing Python 2.7
Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Wed Nov 26 19:53:10 EST 2014
billyfurlong at gmail.com wrote:
> 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.
That's good! That means you didn't break the system python, which would be
bad.
It's probably possible *in principle* to teach Red Hat Linux to use Python
2.7 as the only version of Python installed, but that will probably break a
lot of critical system scripts like yum. The safest way to deal with this
issue is to
Your options are:
- upgrade the OS to a more recent version which supports 2.7 out of the box;
- explicitly refer to python2.7 instead of python
- use an alias, I put this in my bashrc:
alias python='python2.7'
> 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
So far this all looks good to me.
> Add this to the bashrc
> export PATH=$PATH:/opt/python2.7/bin/
I'm not so sure about that, but I don't have time to investigate right now.
> 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.
Are you sure that /opt/python2.7/bin/python2.7 even exists? What do "ls -l"
and "file" say about them?
--
Steven
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