Python on RedHat AS 2.1?

[Bill Scherer]

Jeremy Winters wrote:

> All the stuff I've found personally are security patches for python 
> 1.5.2... which seems to be baked into the OS.
>
> I don't choose to use this OS... it is mandated by our IT dept.  I 
> have no complaints other than this...
>
> Is there nobody in pythonland who has installed python 2.2 or higher 
> on this OS?
>
> Anybody?

Sure. Python2.4 builds just fine on RHEL2.1:

# uname -r
2.4.9-e.65enterprise
# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Linux Advanced Server release 2.1AS (Pensacola)
# python2.4
Python 2.4.2 (#1, Nov  3 2005, 08:53:49)
[GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.2 2.96-129.7.2)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>>


The system installed python1.5 is prefixed to /usr. By default, 
./configure for python will prefix to /usr/local. You should (assuming 
you have the proper development tools installed) be able to just 
./configure; make; make install (assuming you have the proper 
permissions). They can coexist just fine.

- Bill

>
> Jeremy
>
>
>
>     From: Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com>
>     To: python-list at python.org
>     Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 10:20:21 +0200
>     Subject: Re: Python on RedHat AS 2.1?
>
>     Jeremy Winters wrote:
>
>     > Installable package?
>     >
>     > Any ideas?
>
>     is RedHat no longer providing pre-built packages for their
>     distributions ?
>
>
>
>
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