[Mailman-Users] RE: how to configure mailman to use a specific python?

[Paul H Byerly]

Ben wrote:
>We have an old version of python installed which is heavily used by the 
>Ensim, so I need to compile the up-to-date version to an isolated place 
>and assign mailman to use this installation. Can someone tell me how to do 
>the configuration for mailman before installation. Thanks.

      First install the new python using the altinstall option:

wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.2.2/Python-2.2.2.tgz
tar xvzf Python-2.2.2.tgz
cd Python-2.2.2
./configure
make
make altinstall

      This puts Python2.2 at /usr/local/bin/python2.2.  Give that location 
in the Mailman configuration.  My config statement was:

./configure  --with-mail-gid=mail --with-python=/usr/local/bin/python2.2 
--with-cgi-gid=apache

      My full information on the install OUTSIDE the chrooted environment 
on Ensim 3.0 is at 
http://forums.ev1servers.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23118 .  Farther 
down there is also a way to do it inside the chrooted.


<>< Paul