Re: [Tutor] Upgrade to 2.4

[William Allison]

Danny Yoo wrote:
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, William Allison wrote:
 

I compiled Python 2.3.4 from source, but now I would like to upgrade to
2.4.  There doesn't seem to be a "make uninstall" target for 2.3.4.
Will compiling 2.4 overwrite the older version, or will I have two
versions of Python on my system?
   

Hi Will,
According to the README, you can install Python 2.4 in a way that doesn't
overwrite your older version of Python.  Here's a snippet from the README:
"""
If you have a previous installation of Python that you don't
want to replace yet, use
       make altinstall
This installs the same set of files as "make install" except it
doesn't create the hard link to "python<version>" named "python" and
it doesn't install the manual page at all.
"""
This should install '/usr/local/bin/python2.4', but otherwise, it should
leave the rest of your Python 2.3.4 installation intact.
Hope this helps!
 

Yeah, I saw that, but didn't want two versions of Python hanging 
around.  I went ahead and did "make install" for 2.4 and it replaced the 
previous version. 
Thanks,
Will
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