Compiling python from soruce vs RPM ?

howa howachen at gmail.com
Wed Apr 18 22:39:52 EDT 2007


On Apr 19, 6:10 am, Paul Boddie <p... at boddie.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Since /usr/bin/python isn't found, it doesn't look like there's an
> existing version of Python that you might overwrite, but it's
> important to verify such things when installing software. That's where
> your distribution's packages have an advantage, and it's arguably a
> better idea to install such packages instead, possibly building them
> from source if no binary packages exist yet for Python 2.5. (If no
> source packages exist, you have a bit more work to do.)
>
> Paul


Thanks.


One more question:

How to uninstall using the source package?

the source package doesn't come with `make uninstall`?







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