[libvirt] how to install updated python bindings

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Wed Dec 3 12:01:05 UTC 2008


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

  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

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