Re: Python 2.7 OS requirements

2016-11-19 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Connie Sieh wrote: >> On Sat, 30 Jul 2016, P. Larry Nelson wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Please don't shoot the questioner (me), as I have no experience with >>> Python, other than knowing "what" it is and that my SL6.8 systems have >>> version

Re: Python 2.7 OS requirements

2016-08-01 Thread Connie Sieh
On Sat, 30 Jul 2016, P. Larry Nelson wrote: Hi all, Please don't shoot the questioner (me), as I have no experience with Python, other than knowing "what" it is and that my SL6.8 systems have version 2.6.6 installed. I have been asked by one of our Professors that one of his grad students

Re: Python 2.7 OS requirements

2016-08-01 Thread Ken Teh
I suggest trying anaconda from continuum analytics. It installs into /opt and provides its own ecosytem, ie, all the support libraries it needs. Because of this, it will run on an SL6 machine. The install script does give you the option of installing it under a different root. It provides

Re: Python 2.7 OS requirements

2016-07-31 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 7:36 PM, P. Larry Nelson wrote: > Hi all, > > Please don't shoot the questioner (me), as I have no experience with > Python, other than knowing "what" it is and that my SL6.8 systems have > version 2.6.6 installed. > > I have been asked by one of our

Re: Python 2.7 OS requirements

2016-07-31 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 7:36 PM, P. Larry Nelson wrote: > Hi all, > > Please don't shoot the questioner (me), as I have no experience with > Python, other than knowing "what" it is and that my SL6.8 systems have > version 2.6.6 installed. > > I have been asked by one of our

Re: Python 2.7 OS requirements

2016-07-31 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Sun, 31 Jul 2016, ~Stack~ wrote: I have the exact same problem. Don't try to replace 2.6.6. It broke ALL KINDS of things including RPM when I tried it...did not go well at all (but a good learning experience! :-). Here are three solutions: 1) Software Collections:

Re: Python 2.7 OS requirements

2016-07-31 Thread ~Stack~
On 07/30/2016 06:36 PM, P. Larry Nelson wrote: > Hi all, Greetings! [snip] > I have been asked by one of our Professors that one of his grad students > apparently needs Python 2.7.x installed on our cluster (optimally in > /usr/local, which is an NFS mounted dir everywhere). > > In my brief

Re: Python 2.7 OS requirements

2016-07-31 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Sat, 30 Jul 2016, P. Larry Nelson wrote: Hi all, Please don't shoot the questioner (me), as I have no experience with Python, other than knowing "what" it is and that my SL6.8 systems have version 2.6.6 installed. I have been asked by one of our Professors that one of his grad students

Re: Python 2.7 OS requirements

2016-07-30 Thread P. Larry Nelson
To the two Stevens, Thanks for the possible solutions to this! However, I did hear back from the grad student and his response was: "I'm installing some python packages and need a higher version of numpy, which asks for python 2.7. I'll try on CERN system. Thanks!" Hopefully that's the

Re: Python 2.7 OS requirements

2016-07-30 Thread Bruce Ferrell
Larry, the thing about the python ecosystem is that it holds to a philosophy of "backwards compatibility my A**! we told we're gonna break it and we did! We have a new, shiny idea and it's better. recode your already working stuff". Not acceptable in my mind, but to each their own. There

Re: Python 2.7 OS requirements

2016-07-30 Thread Steven J. Yellin
Another way is to get Python-2.7.12.tar.xz from https://www.python.org/downloads/, extract into directory Python-2.7.12 with 'tar -xJf Python-2.7.12.tar.xz', and see its README file for what to do next to get it in /usr/local. Steven Yellin On Sun, 31 Jul 2016, Steven Haigh wrote: You

Re: Python 2.7 OS requirements

2016-07-30 Thread Steven Haigh
You can look at virtualenv from EPEL. You can install a separate python environment in a users home directory. On 31/07/16 09:36, P. Larry Nelson wrote: > Hi all, > > Please don't shoot the questioner (me), as I have no experience with > Python, other than knowing "what" it is and that my SL6.8

Python 2.7 OS requirements

2016-07-30 Thread P. Larry Nelson
Hi all, Please don't shoot the questioner (me), as I have no experience with Python, other than knowing "what" it is and that my SL6.8 systems have version 2.6.6 installed. I have been asked by one of our Professors that one of his grad students apparently needs Python 2.7.x installed on our