Fwd: Re: Problems installing Python on server
Also be careful and setup all the paths that is required for compiling various Python modules etc. On Jan 29, 8:28 am, Yansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I asked my hosting company if they would upgrade Python on my server to the latest version. They responded with: Sorry no. We tend to stick with what comes packaged with the unix distribution to ease maintenance issues. There is nothing stopping you from running your own version of python from within your own account. Download the source and compile it and install it into your own space. Adjust the fist line of your python scripts to reflect the location of YOUR python binary: #! /home/youraccount/yourlibs/python and you should be all set. Go to the ReadME file after you unpack python. Open and look for Installing. Read the section, it explains how to install on the entire system and how to install locally. Make altinstall is what you are looking for. jim-on-linux http:\\www.inqvista.com The build instructions for Python are: To start building right away (on UNIX): type ./configure in the current directory and when it finishes, type make. This creates an executable ./python; to install in usr/local, first do su root and then make install. The problem is, I don't have root access to the server so I can't do the make install. I have ubuntu on my computer, but from what I understand I can't compile it on that and upload it because the server runs Red Had and the ./configure would have made it incompatible right? So how can I build Python without root access? Will the make install make my Python the default one? If I want to install some Python modules, will I need to alter their installation as well or will it see my Python version as the right one to install too? Cheers. --- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Fwd: Re: Problems installing Python on server
jim-on-linux wrote: Also be careful and setup all the paths that is required for compiling various Python modules etc. On Jan 29, 8:28 am, Yansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I asked my hosting company if they would upgrade Python on my server to the latest version. They responded with: Sorry no. We tend to stick with what comes packaged with the unix distribution to ease maintenance issues. There is nothing stopping you from running your own version of python from within your own account. Download the source and compile it and install it into your own space. Adjust the fist line of your python scripts to reflect the location of YOUR python binary: #! /home/youraccount/yourlibs/python and you should be all set. Go to the ReadME file after you unpack python. Open and look for Installing. Read the section, it explains how to install on the entire system and how to install locally. Make altinstall is what you are looking for. jim-on-linux http:\\www.inqvista.com The build instructions for Python are: To start building right away (on UNIX): type ./configure in the current directory and when it finishes, type make. This creates an executable ./python; to install in usr/local, first do su root and then make install. The problem is, I don't have root access to the server so I can't do the make install. I have ubuntu on my computer, but from what I understand I can't compile it on that and upload it because the server runs Red Had and the ./configure would have made it incompatible right? So how can I build Python without root access? Will the make install make my Python the default one? If I want to install some Python modules, will I need to alter their installation as well or will it see my Python version as the right one to install too? The default one? That's just the one that runs when a user enters the python command, right? make install will install Python wherever you told the configure utility to build it for. make altinstall is a convenience method that (IIRC) builds for /usr/local/bin. Generally speaking when you install an extension or other module, nowadays you use the command python setup.py install The installation takes place in whichever copy of Python runs setup.py, so with a default /usr/bin/python and an alternate /usr/local/bin/python, to install a module in the alternate you would run /usr/local/bin/python setup.py install The same is true of a Python you have installed somewhere under your home directory. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Fwd: Re: Problems installing Python on server
On Thursday 31 January 2008 09:46, jim-on-linux wrote: Also be careful and setup all the paths that is required for compiling various Python modules etc. On Jan 29, 8:28 am, Yansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I asked my hosting company if they would upgrade Python on my server to the latest version. They responded with: Sorry no. We tend to stick with what comes packaged with the unix distribution to ease maintenance issues. There is nothing stopping you from running your own version of python from within your own account. Download the source and compile it and install it into your own space. Adjust the fist line of your python scripts to reflect the location of YOUR python binary: #! /home/youraccount/yourlibs/python and you should be all set. Go to the ReadME file after you unpack python. Open and look for Installing. Read the section, it explains how to install on the entire system and how to install locally. Make altinstall is what you are looking for. jim-on-linux http:\\www.inqvista.com The build instructions for Python are: To start building right away (on UNIX): type ./configure in the current directory and when it finishes, type make. This creates an executable ./python; to install in usr/local, first do su root and then make install. The problem is, I don't have root access to the server so I can't do the make install. I have ubuntu on my computer, but from what I understand I can't compile it on that and upload it because the server runs Red Had and the ./configure would have made it incompatible right? So how can I build Python without root access? Will the make install make my Python the default one? If I want to install some Python modules, will I need to alter their installation as well or will it see my Python version as the right one to install too? Cheers. From the Readme file enclose with Python; -- If you have a previous installation of Python that you don't want to replace yet, use make altinstall This installs the same set of files as make install except it doesn't create the hard link to pythonversion named python and it doesn't install the manual page at all. -- I installed python 2.5 using make altinstall by going to /usr/local/lib unpacking, then using make altinstall Folder 2.5 is created. To add modules, as I have added PIL to my system, I go to; /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages where I installed PIL. installing a py module in the site-packages folder is where I would install any package unless otherwise directed. When upgrading you can go to the site directory and see what's in there, and what has to be added to a new upgrade. http:\\www.inqvista.com jim-on-linux -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
