Installation Problem

[Fredrik Lundh]

Marshall Dudley wrote:

> Is it not possible to install the latest version of python on my FreeBSD
> system?  Upgrading the FreeBSD is not an option since this is a production
> system and everything else is working fine.

that's really a FreeBSD question, isn't it?

 > You are using: 2.2.2 (#1, Jun  4 2006, 16:29:13)

Python 2.2.2 was originally released in 2002, but your copy was built 
yesterday?  did the FreeBSD source kit you got really contain a four 
year old release?  heck, it's not even the 2.2 release in the 2.2 
series, and there's been two major releases since then.

are you sure you cannot get a *prebuilt* newer version from some FreeBSD 
repository?

or if that's not possible, use the *standard* python.org source kit? 
after all, it's known to build and install on virtually any modern Unix 
or Unix-like system (and most non-Unix systems too), and you're free to 
install it everywhere you want (and the default on Unix is /usr/local, 
so you don't even have to read the README; just make sure you use the 
real thing, instead of some botched FreeBSD-specific source kit).

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