Re: yum installs Tkinter in a way visible to only one python installation
- From: Rahul <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 22:18:00 +0000 (UTC)
Dan Espen <daneNO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:iczlq8rd3c.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxx:
I wish I could. But some other code probably insists it needs 2.4.4 (
Probably?
Sorry. I should have been clearer. The non-yum 2.4.4 version existed before
I started maintaining this system. I lack the documentation why they added
it (usually we stick to yum) but I feel confidant there was some reason for
my predecessors to install it outside the yum system (the default 'python'
on my system points to 2.4.4). Unfortunately there's no easy way to check
if some codes absolutely depend on that version (or is there?).
I wonder what kind of environment you have.
At work our normal mode of operation is if it's a RH 4 system,
then it must run only RH 4 packages.
This is a university computing cluster. So we are a little more
"adventurous" here, I guess. Sometimes the codes we need are not a part of
the RH4 yum-release. Other times codes need a package version newer than
what RHEL has by default.
But our choice of RHEL was probably misguided. RHEL seems to ship packages
that are a couple of versions back from the official latest stable release.
Those versions aren't obsolete.
They're the ones tested for that release.
If there's a bug, report it if you have a service contract.
My bad. I should have said "old". I didn't mean to imply "buggy". But older
versions will typically lack functionality. The Python Website lists 2.5.2
as their "latest stable release". That's more than a couple of numbers off
from the 2.4.3 that RHEL comes with.
--
Rahul
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