Re: What is the best way to upgrade python?

2007-03-22 Thread John Nagle
Facundo Batista wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>i am using red hat enterprise 4. It has python 2.3 installed. What is >>the best way to upgrade to python 2.4? Very carefully. All the C libraries that work with Python are version-dependent. Joh

Re: What is the best way to upgrade python?

2007-03-22 Thread jim-on-linux
On Thursday 22 March 2007 15:18, Facundo Batista wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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 o

Re: What is the best way to upgrade python?

2007-03-22 Thread Facundo Batista
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 depe

Re: What is the best way to upgrade python?

2007-03-09 Thread Paul Boddie
On 8 Mar, 22:13, "[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? By installing a version from the source packages available from python.org. > I think one way is to compile pyth

Re: What is the best way to upgrade python?

2007-03-08 Thread ying lcs
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 > rp

Re: What is the best way to upgrade python?

2007-03-08 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > 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 > '

Re: What is the best way to upgrade python?

2007-03-08 Thread Sick Monkey
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

Re: What is the best way to upgrade python?

2007-03-08 Thread ying lcs
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 /u

Re: What is the best way to upgrade python?

2007-03-08 Thread Sick Monkey
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. On 8 Mar 2007

What is the best way to upgrade python?

2007-03-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 ide