curses, python20/152, RH70/62, postgresql problems

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 03:44:49PM +0000, dubal at my-deja.com wrote:
>First we tried to install the Beopen Py20 rpm on
>RedHat 7.0. It looks for some old libs and
>doesn't install.

Ugh.  Yeah, I found the BeOpen RPM to be lacking.  I've got a copy I've tweeked
a bit, in particular it includes SSL support in the sockets, and doesn't stick
Python in /usr/local/bin.  You can download the SRPM from:

	ftp://ftp.tummy.com/pub/tummy/RPMS/SRPMS

Turn it into a binary RPM with "rpm --rebuild Python-2.0-1.src.rpm" (which
stores the binary RPM in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 or the like by default).
Note that this builds Python as "/usr/bin/python2", so you can install it
*NEXT TO* instead of on top of Python 1.5.2.  This can be changed by
installing the SRPM, and editing the .spec file -- the third line or so
specifies what the suffix is -- commenting that out should make it install
to /usr/bin/python

You'll probably need to install the glibc and possibly gcc errata from
RedHat to build it as AMK mentioned.

Sean
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