Updating Python...Newbie alert!

[Gillou]

Or you can replace "make install" by "make altinstall" if you want to keep
Python 1.5.2 as default python (perhaps you got compiled extensions like
database or GUI adaptors).
Then you need to run your new python distro with "python2.2" command.

"Chris Liechti" <cliechti at gmx.net> a écrit dans le message news:
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> "Mr.Lee" <mrlee at davesupply.com> wrote in news:n3ah8.112697
> $Hu6.28510292 at typhoon.neo.rr.com:
> > Hi all,
> >         Being quite new to Linux, I am having a bit of a problem
> > when it comes to updating my installed version of Python(1.5.2) to
> > the version that I have now(2.2).
> >         My problem is that I compiled Python in the directory that
> > I  downloaded and now I don't know where to put all of the files
> > that were generated!  It works, I ran the tests and it all came out
> > fine, but I just don't know where to put the files for maximum
> > efficiency.
>
> usualy one does "./configure;make;make install" and the "make
> install" places the files where they belong (in subdirectories of
> /usr/local/ usualy)
>
> chris
>
> --
> Chris <cliechti at gmx.net>
>