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You should be careful with regards to "upgrading" python. If you install a new version of python in the same place where your distro installs its version of python you can end up with a broken system. You could compile your own version to a directory like /usr/local/python25.
You should be careful with regards to "upgrading" python. If you install a new version of python in the same place where your distro installs its version of python you can end up with a broken system. You could compile your own version to a directory like /usr/local/python25.
Hi, i am still quite fresh in the linux, mind to show me the step if i manually download the python2.5.tar.gz file? as when i do the yum update, it only show me python2.4 is the latest update, but i need python2.5, thanks!
Distributions tend to stick with the same version of python even if a new version has been released, thats why yum keeps showing the old version. This is for stability reasons and so that distro maintainers don't have to port their tools to a new python release. If you need a new version of python, compile from source and make sure you install in a different path to that of your distributions version of python.
If you downloaded the tar.gz file, you need to do something like
Code:
tar zxvf python2.5.tar.gz
cd python2.5
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/python25
make
su
make install
Read the documentation on the python site or in the directory extracted from the tar.gz file for more specific installation details.
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