Unfortunately I did not and don’t have any spare time at the moment to do so.

Sorry…

Thanks.
alex

Instead of something like the below…

yum install python25

You would instead use something like the below which specifies i386 or 32bit versus x86-64 or 64bit.

yum install python25.i386

Hope that helps…

Thanks.
alex

Im also getting no packages found. The repo is installed, and I can see it. When I yum update, it see`s the repo, but cant find any package. Here is a ls of my repo dir and what happens when I try install python26:

root@nerthus [/etc/yum.repos.d]# ls
./ ../ CentOS-Base.repo CentOS-Debuginfo.repo CentOS-Media.repo CentOS-Vault.repo chl.repo mirrors-rpmforge rpmforge.repo rpmforge-testing.repo
root@nerthus [/etc/yum.repos.d]# yum install python26
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirrors.finalasp.com
* extras: mirror.raystedman.net
* updates: mirrors.tummy.com
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Setting up Install Process
No package python26 available.
Nothing to do
root@nerthus [/etc/yum.repos.d]#

It is a 64bit system so how do I specify the package as 386 as you mentioned to get it working? Thanks for the help!

Did you ever get round to writing the article ?
As I’m trying to install python 2.6 on cents 5 x86_64.

Thanks

Did you follow the instructions and install the new YUM repo? If you are on a 64-bit machine you may need to specify the package as i386. Make sure the new YUM repo is installed as well.

Thanks.
alex

:(

Cool. Thanks for the tip. I wasn’t aware you could do it this way. While I personally still prefer doing it via a package manager this is not only something I am glad to know but something others will find useful. Thanks again for taking the time to share.

Linux rocks! The beauty of it is there are a thousand roads that lead to similar solutions and the fact that the community not only shares but does so willingly.

Thanks.
alex

./configure –prefix /usr (this was so python2.6 would install in the same location as python2.4, just my preference)
make
make altinstall

This SEEMS to work. yum still functions. I used it to upgrade my 2.4.3 to 2.4.3-27

Take it for what it’s worth, I’m still quite new to Linux.

I don’t recall specifically as its been quite awhile but using the above method did allow me to use Django without issue. Just run “updatedb” and then use locate to find whatever file/files you are looking for.

Thanks.
alex

If you use python setup.py install it will install it for python 2.4 and python26 setup.py install will do so for python 2.6. You should see if there are yum packages in the repo mentioned in the article though for best results.

Thanks.
alex

Thanks for posting this. I am sure it will help others in the future. As I mentioned in my initial response I will be posting an article soon. Please keep in mind that the Python version installed from this article is Python 2.6 i386. The new article I will be posting will discuss installing the Python version 2.6 x86_64 package using a different repository. I ran into an issue where I needed Python 2.6 x86_64 to compile something on a 64-bit CentOS server.

Thanks.
alex

No problem. Thanks for taking the time to post. I actually have an article I will be writing soon regarding Python version 2.6 and 64-bit CentOS Linux 5.X which would apply the same way to Red Hat AS 5.

Thanks.
alex

apt-get install bzip2-libs.32bit
apt-get install gdbm.32bit

Fred

Thanks for your how to.
Unfortunately, I am running x64 (Read Hat AS 5), and I have missing libs dependency:

Error: Missing Dependency: libbz2.so.1 is needed by package python26
Error: Missing Dependency: libgdbm.so.2 is needed by package python26

I’ll post once solved.
Fred

No problem at all. Thanks again for responding with more info so others can use mod_wsgi if they want. I personally ended up not using mod_python either and switched to running what I was working with out of mod_fastcgi which has worked great so far.

Thanks!
alex

http://www.webtop.com.au/installing-wsgi-adaptor-for-apache-using-mod-wsgi

Thanks again,

Tom

Thanks for adding this. I wasn’t aware about the EPEL repo and must have had it set up already on this server when I installed the new repo.

Anyway thanks for adding this for others…

Thanks.
alex