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CHL Yum Repository Not Working On 64-Bit CentOS Linux

InsightsBy alex March 8, 2010 Leave a comment

Recently we installed a development server running 64-Bit (x86_64) CentOS Linux. One of the things we needed to install was Python version 2.6 without overwriting the default Python version 2.4 on the server. The reason for not wanting to overwrite the default Python version is because other packages such as the Yum Package Manager depend…

How To Install Python 2.6 On CentOS 5 Without Breaking Yum

InsightsBy alex December 25, 2009 21 Comments

I recently was installing Django for a test project and needed to upgrade Python on a CentOS server to 2.6. The current revisions available via yum on CentOS are 2.4. The yum package manager requires Python 2.4 still to function properly so upgrading Python to 2.6 manually will break the CentOS yum package manager. After…