RedHat 7.3

[Grant Edwards]

In article <283adf56.0210190750.5f35a1b8 at posting.google.com>, Kevin Dahlhausen wrote:

>> There are python2 packages that RH distributes...  If those don't fit your
>> needs, grab the SRPM and modify it to suit.
>
> I'll track these down.  The problem is of course the redhat
> configuration utilites.   Do you know offhand if these RPM's contained
> updated Redhat utilities as well - such as printconf-gui etc?

No.  The Python2 RPMs leave Python 1.5.2 installed as "python" and that's
what is used by the system utilities.  The Python2 RPMS install a second
python version and you can invoke that interpreter as python2.

$ which python
/usr/bin/python

$ python
Python 1.5.2 (#1, Apr  3 2002, 18:16:26)  [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.2 2 on linux-i386
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> 

$ which python2
/usr/bin/python2

$ python2
Python 2.2 (#1, Apr 12 2002, 15:29:57) [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.2 2.96-109)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> 

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Grant Edwards
grante at visi.com