Hi all, Not a python user but I'm trying to upgrade python so I can install pip which is required for one of the apps that I'm installing.
I've tried to install using the below instructions, but when I type python I still get the old 2.4.3 version. Oh Red Hat 5.8 is where I'm installing on. yum groupinstall "development tools" -y yum install readline-devel openssl-devel gmp-devel ncurses-devel gdbm-devel \ glib-devel expat-devel libGL-devel tk tix gcc-c++ \ libX11-devel glibc-devel bzip2 tar tcl-devel tk-devel pkgconfig \ tix-devel bzip2-devel sqlite-devel autoconf db4-devel libffi-devel \ valgrind-devel -y mkdir tmp cd tmp wget http://python.org/ftp/python/2.7.5/Python-2.7.5.tgz tar xvfz Python-2.7.5.tgz cd Python-2.7.5 ./configure --prefix=/opt/python2.7 --enable-shared make make altinstall Add this to the bashrc export PATH=$PATH:/opt/python2.7/bin/ Now the installation worked fine but shouldn't I see that it's using the correct version??? I also did try to run /opt/python2.7/bin/python2.7 and it give me this. [root@wmy machine bin]# python2.7 python2.7: error while loading shared libraries: libpython2.7.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Please help the newb. He's frustrated. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
