[K12OSN] Need help with a Python Upgrade on FC6

[Nils Breunese]

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.