Olav Vitters wrote: > Evandro Fernandes Giovanini mentioned on d-d-l that atrpms.net had > Python 2.4 rpms for RHEL3. As I do not trust that source I downloaded > the src.rpm, verified the sources + spec + patches are sane and > recompiled it in my homedir. > > Now container has Python 2.4 in /usr/bin/python2.4 or /usr/bin/python24. > When reviewing the patches I noticed some references to Python 2.3, so > please verify if it is working correctly. > > To install the Python 2.4 rpm on another server, do: > rpm -ivh ~ovitters/rpm/RPMS/i386/python24-2.4.1-2_8.i386.rpm > > It had a python24-tools + tkinter24 package as well, but I did not > install those. > > Just to be clear: the rpm does NOT overwrite the existing Python install > (as long as the existing install is Python 2.2 / 2.3). >
However, it does update the /usr/bin/python symlink, but that shouldn't be a problem. FYI, I installed these RPMs on menubar too, thinking it might fix the segfault on malformed UTF-8 I was having, but it didn't. I ended up finding another workaround instead. -- Ross _______________________________________________ Gnome-infrastructure mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure
