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Python 2.2 on Red Hat

Russell Blau russblau at hotmail.com
Wed Nov 17 09:51:30 EST 2004 
"David Ripton" <dripton at ripton.net> wrote in message
news:9b6f95cb.0411170639.6e5c45fc at posting.google.com...
> Andy Jacobs <oct at redcatmedia.net> wrote in message
news:<BDC02405.3068%oct at redcatmedia.net>...

> So you need to put a newer Python somewhere else.
>
> My advice is to install modern Python (like 2.3.4), from source (it's
> easy: standard ./configure; make; su; make install), under /usr/local.

No, you need to "make altinstall", not "make install", to prevent having
python2.3 overwrite the system's built-in python symlink.

Although the advice above (as amended) is correct, it's also incredibly
cryptic for someone who is not a Linux sysadmin guru!  Try reading the
README file in the Python source toplevel directory for somewhat more
helpful directions.

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