python 2.3 installed on RH 9 but 2.2.2 is active
 

Hello,

J've just installed the whole python rpm's package for redhat 9.

Installation done with a NOKEY warning for each pack.

The Python 2.3 directory is close to the 2.2 but my python active shell remains
the 2.2.2 version.

....Thanks

Dominik

How about removing the old package then?

And as for the install - did you do install or
upgrade??

man rpm
for details...


Cheers,
Tink

Hi Tink,
I'm on linux since 2 weeks.

I typed in the shell rpm -i for all packs.

Don't know if system upgraded or installed,.

I thought the solution was to change a path but where??

Do you NEED to keep the older version?

The path's for executables will presumably be
set somewhere in /etc (if it's the paths, not symlinks).
The python shared libraries should be listed
in /etc/ld.so.conf

But then this all may be quite distro specific.

To find out whether python gets called through
a link, do both of these:

Cheers,
Tink

Maybe this will help you, straight from www.python.org:

If you're compiling from source on Red Hat 9, RH9 compiles Tcl/Tk as UCS-4, but Python still defaults to UCS-2. You can either use


./configure --enable-unicode=ucs4
with Python, or you can try Anthony Baxter's patched version of Tcl/Tk at http://www.interlink.com.au/anthony/tech/rh9-tcltk/. Note that some people have noticed that RH9's Tcl/Tk chews memory like crazy, so definitely try Anthony's patch if you have that problem.

I did this.
 

I think RH9 puts python in
/usr/bin and the python installer puts it in
/usr/local/bin. In my .cshrc at least it picked up the
/usr/bin first and never found the /usr/local/bin one.

I think I just moved all the python stuff in /usr/bin from /usr/bin/python to /usr/bin/python.old or whatever.