Python 2.3 on RedHat 9

[Laughlin, Joseph V]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wes weston [mailto:wweston at att.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 10:19 AM
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: Re: Python 2.3 on RedHat 9
> 
> 
> Stephen Ng wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Has anyone installed Python 2.3 on RedHat 9? Did you 
> install on top of
> > Python 2.2 or did you install in a separate directory (eg 
> the default)?
> > 
> > I'm trying to find out in advance if it's hassle free to 
> install as I 
> > am
> > planning to do it.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Stephen Ng
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> Stephen,
>     Yes and if you put the 2.3 ahead of the system
> python, things like the "network device control"
> tool quit working.
>     I just did a pythonx script to run 2.3.
> wes
> 

Here's what I did:

1)  Get the src.rpm for python 2.3.

2)  Rebuild the rpm with 'rpmbuild --rebuild python-2.3.src.rpm'

3)  Install the resulting binary rpm.

4)  Remove /usr/bin/python (was a link to /usr/bin/python2.2) and create
a new link /usr/bin/python to /usr/bin/python2.3

This has worked fine for me.