hi thanks Berrange ... after installing python development packages and setting the variables i am able to work out the trouble. @Veillard unfortunately i required some latest version,which is not provided yet as rpm, api for my needs, and hence started from source. <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Daniel Veillard <<a href="mailto:veillard@redhat.com">veillard@redhat.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 09:40:55AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 12:44:17AM -0500, ente linux wrote: > > hi > > > > i was trying to install libvirt 0.5 on my centos 5 machine which by default > > have libvirt 0.4. But after installing from the source of libvirt, still the > > output of i get from python remains that of 0.4 > > >>>import libvirt > > >>> libvirt.getVersion() > > 4006 > > > > how could i install the new version... Do i need to give any option while > > configuring or making. > > If installing manually, configure will default to putting it in /usr/local > unless you give a different --prefix option. > > Python only looks in /usr by default, so when installing custom builds > you'll need to set > > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib > export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages </div> in general in an rpm based system it's best to upgrade at the rpm level in my opinion, that avoids a lot of troubles, and it's possible to go back without leftovers from previous attemps left and right... Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/" target="_blank">http://xmlsoft.org/</a> <a href="mailto:daniel@veillard.com">daniel@veillard.com</a> | Rpmfind RPM search engine <a href="http://rpmfind.net/" target="_blank">http://rpmfind.net/</a> <a href="http://veillard.com/" target="_blank">http://veillard.com/</a> | virtualization library <a href="http://libvirt.org/" target="_blank">http://libvirt.org/</a> </blockquote></div> -- thanks and regards visco