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  • Brendan
    #1

    Installing multiple python versions - CentOs Linux

    The current CentOs Linux distro includes python 2.4.3. I need to
    install a more recent version but I am worried about breaking CentOs
    python dependencies. Is it safe to install python 2.6 using pup?
    Tags: centos python 2.6, centos python 3
    • Diez B. Roggisch
      #2
      Re: Installing multiple python versions - CentOs Linux

      Brendan schrieb:
      The current CentOs Linux distro includes python 2.4.3. I need to
      install a more recent version but I am worried about breaking CentOs
      python dependencies. Is it safe to install python 2.6 using pup?
      It should be, yes. Usually, Distros make sure it doesn't break anything
      - and python can have several installations living happily along each
      other.

      The only caveat I see is that you might accidentially replace
      /usr/bin/python with the newer version. Make sure you keep that to the
      one the system wants, and simply use python2.6 as executable-name.

      Diez

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        • Michele Simionato
          #3
          Re: Installing multiple python versions - CentOs Linux

          On Oct 17, 2:51 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <de...@nospam.w eb.dewrote:
          Brendan schrieb:
          >
          The current CentOs Linux distro includes python 2.4.3. I need to
          install a more recent version but I am worried about breaking CentOs
          python dependencies. Is it safe to install python 2.6 using pup?
          >
          It should be, yes. Usually, Distros make sure it doesn't break anything
          - and python can have several installations living happily along each
          other.
          >
          The only caveat I see is that you might accidentially replace
          /usr/bin/python with the newer version. Make sure you keep that to the
          one the system wants, and simply use python2.6 as executable-name.
          >
          Diez
          If you install from sources, the safest path is to run

          $ sudo make altinstall (will add the version number to the executable)

          and NOT

          $ sudo make install

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            • Brendan
              #4
              Re: Installing multiple python versions - CentOs Linux

              If you install from sources, the safest path is to run
              >
              $ sudo make altinstall (will add the version number to the executable)
              >
              and NOT
              >
              $ sudo make install
              Ah, that is perfect. Thank-you!


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