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monkey
Asked: 2011-08-28 09:39:06 +0800 CST

Python on CentOS 5.x

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CentOS 5.x comes with python 2.4 preinstalled. I'd like to use a newer version, but I don't want to break anything.

How should I install a newer version without causing problems?

How can I force mod_python to use newer python, instead of 2.4 ?

python mod-python centos5

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Python 2.6 is available via EPEL. To enable EPEL for your box, just do a:

    rpm -ivh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

    Then, to install Python 2.6:

    yum install python26

    there is also a mod_python from there too:

    yum install python26-mod_python

    To find additional packages: yum search python26

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  2. You can compile python2.x with another user (i use py26 as username) by 

    wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.7/Python-2.6.7.tgz
tar xzvf Python-2.6.7.tgz
cd Python-2.6.7
./configure --prefix=$HOME/python
make
make install

    then add $HOME/python/bin to $PATH, so python2.6 only used by py26 user

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