Python on Linux

[Nick Coghlan]

Paul Rubin wrote:
> "Austin" <austin at maxtronic.com.tw> writes:
> 
>>On Red Hat 9, Python is installed by default and it's version is 2.2.2
>>If I want to upgrade Python to 2.3.4(newer version), how could I do?
>>If I compile source code of Python, how do I uninstall the old version?
>>I tried rpm packages but failed with dependence.
> 
> 
> 
> I didn't try the rpm's.  Just get the source tarball, configure, make,
> and make install.

Although one might argue that make altinstall is a safer approach ;)

(Any scripts using "/usr/bin/env python" would then continue to use Python 2.2)

Cheers,
Nick.

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