Python 2.7 may be installed from Software Collections 1.0 for SL6: http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1309&L=scientific-linux-devel&T=0&P=501
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:03 PM, Yasha Karant <ykar...@csusb.edu> wrote: > From a terminal application within gnome, my default Python is: > > [ykarant@jb344 ~]$ python > Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Feb 21 2013, 19:26:11) > [GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-3)] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>> > > despite having to install whatever the BlueGriffon build required. > > A number of the responses concerning the build of BlueGriffon further > underscore the general lack of polymorphism and encapsulation in the Linux > environment as distributed. In a proper modern OS environment, an > application that requires non-system versions of applications (other than > the core libraries required by the OS itself, a more daunting problem) would > have only these in the path of both the building steps and during the > execution of the built application, preferably still allowing a dynamic > rather than a static image of the built application. > > Yasha Karant > > > On 10/15/2013 12:06 AM, Steven J. Yellin wrote: >> >> Python2.7 can be installed in, say, /usr/local/..., while leaving >> 2.6 (or for SL5, 2.4) as the default version. When you then need to use >> version 2.7 there may be some pain with libraries, but perhaps not too >> much to endure. >> >> Steven Yellin >> >> On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> >>> I took a look a thte Fedora SRPM's, which unfortunately ended about 3 >>> years >>> ago with a very out of date release. The current release requires Python >>> 2.7, which is begging for pain to install on an SL 6 system. >>> >>> SL 7 should be much more compatible with current releases. >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Yasha Karant <ykar...@csusb.edu> wrote: >>> >>>> On 10/14/2013 04:20 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 10/14/2013 04:18 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I now have built from source BlueGriffon for X86-64 SL6x, version >>>>>> 1.7.2.99.20130729, Build 20131013142156, Codename 'Cla-de-Lue' >>>>>> >>>>>> I can provide detailed instructions or just a copy of both the >>>>>> mozconfig >>>>>> file used for the build and the typescript of the building. >>>>>> >>>>>> I have had to add a few RPMs to SL6x from other distributions. There >>>>>> was a query on a different thread (same general topic, but a different >>>>>> subject line) as to why I used a 5x CentOS RPM for one of the >>>>>> dependencies of the build. I could not find a 6x EL version. The >>>>>> application was not a systems application that would >>>>>> overwrite/override >>>>>> other files, and seemed to be constrained with a unique >>>>>> identifier. My >>>>>> experience is that many EL 5 and even EL 4 applications still "work" >>>>>> with EL 6, as did this. Presumably, if the EL 6 version is available, >>>>>> that too would work. >>>>>> >>>>>> Yasha Karant >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> Do you have a place to download the RPM? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> I have the full directory as well as the built files -- but the source >>>> code did not come with any obvious configuration/script software to >>>> build a >>>> RPM. Moreover, I do not have the personnel resources to support this >>>> application for future updates, although I expect that the steps that >>>> I did >>>> will work for such updates. >>>> >>>> I have not built this for the IA-32 platform, only X86-64. Is anyone >>>> with >>>> an IA-32 SL6x development system willing to repeat the exercise to >>>> produce >>>> an IA-32 platform version? >>>> >>>> Can you supply the necessary information to build a RPM as well as >>>> properly specify dependencies? >>>> >>>> Yasha Karant >>>> >>> >