What is the best way to upgrade python?

[Sick Monkey]

Yeah, sorry I should have added more data.
You will need to go to rhn.redhat.com and either download the RPM or get the
url.

So you would do:
(1) download the rpm to your home directory
rpm -Uvh nameOfRPM

or
(2) grab the url
rpm -Uvh http://urlOfRPM

either way should update your python.   Dont be distressed if you need to
update or install new RPMs.

On 3/8/07, ying lcs <yinglcs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/8/07, Sick Monkey <sickcodemonkey at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Have you tried to upgrade the current python RPM?
> >
> > rpm -Uvh ....
> >
> > You can also build from source.  Once you get Python 2.4 up and running
> I am
> > pretty sure you can do a symbolic link on the python 2.3 application
> (either
> > in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin) and point it to the 2.4 python file.
> >
>
>
> I get '$rpm -Uvh python'
> error: open of python failed: no such file or directory
>
> but when I do '$rpm -q python ' , I get python -2.3.4-14.1
>
>
>
> > On 8 Mar 2007 13:13:13 -0800, yinglcs at gmail.com <yinglcs at gmail.com >
> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > i am using red hat enterprise 4. It has python 2.3 installed. What is
> > > the best way to upgrade to python 2.4?
> > >
> > > I think one way is to compile python 2.4 from the source, but I can't
> > > remove the old one since when i do 'rpm -e python', i get error like
> > > 'failed dependencies'.
> > >
> > > Thank you for any idea.
> > >
> > > --
> > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
> > >
> >
> >
>
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