Installing Python 2.4 on Linux

[Edward Diener]

Joseph Garvin wrote:
> Another solution is to just install 2.4 and then make an alias for
> yum='/usr/bin/python2.3 yum' or whatever the path is :)

If it were just 'yum' under Fedora 3, I could probably do that but 
looking at the dependencies on the python2.3 package in Synaptic there 
must be about 50 other packages mentioned. Which one of these 
specifically use python2.3 to execute their .py scripts and which ones 
just use python2.3 shared libraries is another matter which will take 
much work to discover. But thanks for your suggestion nonetheless.

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>>I can install Python 2.4 on the Fedora 3 Linux system, but after I do
>>a number of Linux utilities and commands, like yum, stop working
>>because they were dependent on the Python 2.3 installation. What
>>happens is that Python 2.4 replaces the /usr/bin/python module with
>>the Python 2.4 version. If I replace /usr/bin/python with the Python
>>2.3 version executable, which is still on my system, that all the
>>aforesaid modules depend on, they start working again, but I can no
>>longer execute modules, like IDLE, which was part of my Python 2.4
>>distribution.
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>>What is the solution to this ? The operating system was installed with
>>Python 2.3 and the development libraries but no tools, doc, or
>>otherwise. I have installed Python 2.4 with all the RPMs and copied
>>down the Python 2.4 documentation to my machine ( since
>>python24-docs.rpm gives one very little ). I would naturally like to
>>use Python 2.4 without killing all the commands that depend on Python
>>2.3. No doubt these commands have their modules in the site libraries
>>for Python 2.3. Of course I would love to update these dependencies to
>>use Python 2.4 but newer RPMs for these commands do not exist.
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>>I do not know whether this is a Python problem or a Fedora 3 problem
>>but I thought I would ask here first and see if anybody else had the
>>same problem. I imagine the problem might exist on other Linux systems.
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