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
posts what he did to install a later version of Python than the default 2.6
that comes with RedHat EL (and those comes with CentOS).
Not only do you have to build Python from source, you have to install
a lot of stuff before you can even build it.
To build a car, you need a lot of parts, and you need to build the engine too.
If you are building something yourself, you need header files and gcc, no
matter if it's python or something else you want, you need those things and
lucky you that you don't have something like ms-windows, then you don't have a
package manager which will install most of the things you need, you would need
to hunt down everything yourself (I know ms-win has already compiled versions,
but we are talking about compiling yourself).
Then you have to install
various Python packages from multiple sources. Python doesn't work
with "yum"; you have to do it the hard way.
That's the life when you don't want to use what you are given for free, I'm
sure someone would put up a repo for you if you paid them to compile python
and all the modules for it.
I know how to do all this, but it takes hours. I'm bringing up
a bare dedicated server remotely, which is a routine operation.
If you build your own RPMs, you can do that on your desktop machine, no need
to do it on the underpowered VPS or really, you should have picked a
distribution which gives you python 2.7 by default instead, just visit
distrowatch.com and you can find at least one within two minutes.
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.)
This sort of thing is why Python is losing market share.
It's not Python developers fault that some distributions choose to stay with
older versions of Python instead of switching to 3.2 at once, or that ms-win
don't have python at all.
If you want CentOS to have a newer python by default, then contact RedHat, but
before they listen to you, you may need to get some RedHat licenses.
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