[Tutor] Re: Installing 2.1 on RHL7.0

[Stephen L Arnold]

On 10 May 01, at 20:22, Timothy M. Brauch wrote:

> Any ideas?  Also, should I ditch the *.tgz file and use the rpm's instead,
> should I install all the rpm's:
>   - python2-2.1-4.i386.rpm
>   - python2-tkinter-2.1-4.i386.rpm
>   - python2-devel-2.1-4.i386.rpm
>   - python2-tools-2.1-4.i386.rpm
> I actually tried using these first, but tools gave me an error that it
> conflicted with Python1.5.2, already installed,  Or, what is the deal with
> the source rpms?

I think the first guy is probably correct (it looks like a version 
conflict in the header files.  In general, you should try to use 
source rpms if they are available; you'll find enough stuff to play 
with along the way.  The source rpm for python will produce all the 
above binary rpms for your system.  Try dropping the .srpm file in 
/usr/src/redhat/SRPMS and type:

rpm --rebuild <filename>.src.rpm

If all goes well, it will unpack the the source, run configure, 
make, etc, and place the rpm files in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 (or 
noarch, or whatever).  It seems to default to i386 for processor 
type, even though I have an Athlon now.  I've never looked into it, 
but I suppose rpm must have a config file to set that somewhere...

There are several RedHat packages that use Python (which I suppose 
is why they're still at version 1.52 of Python) so it will probably 
complain about dependencies when you try to install the binaries, 
whether you use the upgrade switch or not.  You can run:

rpm -q python-devel

(and the others) to see which packages are installed.  You should 
install all of them, and for any that complain about a straight 
upgrade, do this do this:

rpm -Uvh --nodeps <filename>.rpm

which will upgrade (but ignore package dependencies).

Have fun, Steve

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