On 20/01/2012 12:42, Anssi Saari wrote:
> Benedict Verheyen writes:
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>> If i need to install a new version of Python, as I happen to have done today,
>> I only need to do step 4. Which is maybe 5 minutes of work.
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> I don't really understand why you compile these common libraries (zlib,
> ncur
Benedict Verheyen writes:
> If i need to install a new version of Python, as I happen to have done today,
> I only need to do step 4. Which is maybe 5 minutes of work.
I don't really understand why you compile these common libraries (zlib,
ncurses, readline) yourself instead of using the relevan
On Jan 20, 2:39 pm, Benedict Verheyen
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> On 19/01/2012 5:36, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
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> > On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:10:43 -0800, alex23 wrote:
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> > download the tar ball
> > extract the contents of the file
> > cd into the source directory
> > run ./configure
> > run make
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On 19/01/2012 5:36, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:10:43 -0800, alex23 wrote:
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> download the tar ball
> extract the contents of the file
> cd into the source directory
> run ./configure
> run make
> optionally run make test
> run sudo make altinstall
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> As a total n00b who
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Christian Heimes wrote:
> Much easier:
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> $ apt-get build-dep python
In the specific case where that's available, it's fine. I've not
gotten into the habit of trusting it, though, largely because a lot of
what I compile _isn't_ in the package manager - otherwise
Am 19.01.2012 12:05, schrieb Chris Angelico:
> What I do is apt-get the most obvious things (g++/gcc and make, in
> this case), then run configure and see if it bombs, then run make and
> see if it bombs, and whenever there's a "command not found", attempt
> to apt-get that command as a package nam
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Steven D'Aprano
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> On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:43:23 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Steven D'Aprano
>> wrote:
>>> With all the tools installed, it's a matter of a few minutes effort to
>>> build from scratch:
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> [...]
>> Now,
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> I daresay any decent package manager would be able to provide the
> complete tool chain for building Python from source. But I have no idea
> what tools are needed -- gcc and make, obviously, but what else? Maybe it
> really is as simple as
On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:43:23 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
>> With all the tools installed, it's a matter of a few minutes effort to
>> build from scratch:
[...]
> Now, granted, this was Debian and I can't speak for Centos. But it would
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> With all the tools installed, it's a matter of a few minutes effort to
> build from scratch:
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> run ./configure
> run make
> run sudo make altinstall
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> As a total n00b who'd never used make before, it took me 25 minutes
> effort on my fi
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:10:43 -0800, alex23 wrote:
> On Jan 19, 4:00 am, John Nagle wrote:
>> It turns out that installing Python 2.7.2 on CentOS 6.0 is a lot
>> of
>> work.
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> There must have been some radical changes between Centos 5 & 6, then, as
> building Python 2.7 from scratch took
On Jan 19, 4:00 am, John Nagle wrote:
> It turns out that installing Python 2.7.2 on CentOS 6.0 is a lot of
> work.
There must have been some radical changes between Centos 5 & 6, then,
as building Python 2.7 from scratch took all of 10 minutes.
> Here are the official CentOS install instruc
On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 10:00 -0800, John Nagle wrote:
> Python does not "just work". I should be able to command
> "yum install python27". (And not clobber the Python 2.6 that
> comes with CentOS.)
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> This sort of thing is why Python is losing market share.
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>
Or — and this is the mor
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:00:47 -0800, John Nagle wrote:
> This sort of thing is why Python is losing market share.
Only on Planet Nagle.
Do you have any evidence that Python actually *is* losing market share,
or are you just trolling?
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John Nagle wrote:
It turns out that installing Python 2.7.2 on CentOS 6.0 is a lot of work. Here
are the official CentOS install instructions:
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=34515&forum=41
Don't see any official about the post, it's just another forum member who
po
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 1:00 PM, John Nagle wrote:
> It turns out that installing Python 2.7.2 on CentOS 6.0 is a lot of work.
> Here are the official CentOS install instructions:
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> http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=34515&forum=41
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> Not only do you have to build Pyth
It turns out that installing Python 2.7.2 on CentOS 6.0 is a lot of
work. Here are the official CentOS install instructions:
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=34515&forum=41
Not only do you have to build Python from source, you have to install
a lot of stuff before y
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