[K12OSN] Need help with a Python Upgrade on FC6

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Nick Fenger
<nick at trilliumcharterschool.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
>

Thanks for reporting back Nick. I may find this very useful.

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