On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Mario Romero <[email protected]> wrote:
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> it seems your upgrade to python 2.6 broke yum.
> Personally, I suggest you get rid of RH and stick to Ubuntu.
> Otherwise you need to fix yum (by rolling back to 2.4 perhaps) and
> after that make sure zlib is installed as well as its development
> headers (zlib/zlib-devel)
> you also might be forced to have 2 different python versions  running
> in your system, in which case you might want to look at using
> virtualenv (you should do this whatever you decide to do).
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+1

Just to further expound on this advice. Ubuntu also uses python for
some system critical functions so I've gotten in the habit of building
from source and installing in ~/local and then virtualenv, per
project. This way I can only hose my home directory by installing
various packages and such.


./configure --prefix=/home/you/local && make && make install

then install distribute

$ curl -O http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py
$ python distribute_setup.py

then install virtualenv

$ easy_install virtualenv


keep sanity in tact.


-- 
Thomas G. Willis

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