[Tutor] Upgrade to 2.4

[William Allison]

Danny Yoo wrote:

>On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, William Allison wrote:
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>> I compiled Python 2.3.4 from source, but now I would like to upgrade to
>>2.4.  There doesn't seem to be a "make uninstall" target for 2.3.4.
>>Will compiling 2.4 overwrite the older version, or will I have two
>>versions of Python on my system?
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>Hi Will,
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>According to the README, you can install Python 2.4 in a way that doesn't
>overwrite your older version of Python.  Here's a snippet from the README:
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>"""
>If you have a previous installation of Python that you don't
>want to replace yet, use
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>        make altinstall
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>This installs the same set of files as "make install" except it
>doesn't create the hard link to "python<version>" named "python" and
>it doesn't install the manual page at all.
>"""
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>This should install '/usr/local/bin/python2.4', but otherwise, it should
>leave the rest of your Python 2.3.4 installation intact.
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>Hope this helps!
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Yeah, I saw that, but didn't want two versions of Python hanging 
around.  I went ahead and did "make install" for 2.4 and it replaced the 
previous version. 
Thanks,
Will