On 3/8/07, Sick Monkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >
Thanks. I went to rhn.redhat.com, but they only have python 2.3.4 for RHEL4. > > On 3/8/07, ying lcs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 3/8/07, Sick Monkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
