[SOLVED] How to setup Side-by-side python and manually install modules to a specific version?

Kustom42 · 09-09-2014, 05:25 PM

Hey everyone,

Havent had to do this before but we have a CentOS 5 box that needs 2.7 for a specific script. We have 2.4.3 working just fine that other scripts rely upon.

I am able to manually install python 2.7 to /usr/bin/python2.7 but need to install additional python modules and am stuck as I am not able to find any documentation on line for this.

For example, I need to get ipdb installed but cannot use pip because it will try to install it to python 2.4.3 and not the compiled 2.7.

Any references are much appreciated.

Thanks.

Kustom42 · 09-09-2014, 05:46 PM

Been a long time since I messed with python, was way too simple and obvious but I got it goin. One of those moments where you feel dumb but oh well.

Here are the steps for anyone who stumbles across this looking for the same.

Just need to use git or wget or whatever to download the tar/zip file extract it, then call your specific version of python and build/install it:

Code:

wget https://github.com/gotcha/ipdb/archive/master.zip
unzip ./master
/usr/bin/python2.7 ./ipdb-master/setup.py build
/usr/bin/python2.7 ./ipdb-master/setup.py install