[K12OSN] Need help with a Python Upgrade on FC6

[Nick Fenger]

THIS WAS RESOLVED (details below)

I was able to get this working by building python from scratch and using the
"make altinstall" command which put the new version in
/usr/local/lib/Python2.5  . There was information on that in the README.TXT
that came with the Python 2.5 source. Before configuring, I had to add the
Tcl/Tk dev. packages so IDLE would work.

After that, I had to copy the python executable form the build directory to
/usr/local/lib/Python2.5 and everything worked. 


-----Original Message-----
From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf
Of Nils Breunese
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 11:38 AM
To: Support list for open source software in schools.
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Need help with a Python Upgrade on FC6

Robert Arkiletian wrote:

> 2008/4/8 Nick Fenger <nick at trilliumcharterschool.org>:
>>
>> My question:
>>
>> Do I run them both? And if so -  How do I get my students to use  
>> the new
>> version 2.5 and the system to stay using 2.4?
>
> This was a pain for me also. The OS is very dependent on the version
> of python that it's shipped with so if you upgrade it will break
> things like yum. The best I could figure out was to install the
> pyvault packages, but I chickened out installing it since it was on a
> production box.  But I have read others having success with pyvault
> and some not.

I guess you should be able to install Python 2.5 from source in /usr/ 
local which won't mess with the OS packages. Then you just need to  
make sure your game uses the install in /usr/local and not the version  
shipping with the OS.

Nils Breunese.

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