Running multiple versions of Python on the same host..

[jeff.pitman at gmail.com]

Cowmix wrote:
> For my day job I am forced to run RHEL3 (and Centos3 on my desktop). I
> want to be able to use a few applications that require Python 2.4.X but
> RHEL3 ships with Python 2.2.3. I have tried to install and upgrade
> Python 2.4.X many ways like using PyVault and doing a source based
> install but each way has been fraught with problems from weird
> dependency issues to screwing up 'yum'.

Did you use the bootstrap RPM?

http://www.python.org/pyvault/centos-3-i386/pyvault-release-bootstrap-3-3.el3.pyv.noarch.rpm

If you want to try again, you can ping the pyvault-users mailing list
for specific answers to error messages you are seeing during
installation.

> What is the best way to run multiple version of Python on the same
> system?
> 
> thanks!