12 Jan
2000
12 Jan
'00
5:43 p.m.
1. Fresh install of Redhat 6.1 2. Installed Python from source, and copied over the python that Redhat automatically installed.
i've seen this same recommendation twice in the last couple of days... to "just copy over the python executable redhat installed".... eventually, this is going to jump up and bite someone in the ass. leaving extra libraries lying around all over a system (which you're going to do by 'just copy over' methods...) is quite a pain to clean up. the better solution would be: rpm -e python --nodeps build python with threads enabled do a make install make sure your path knows about /usr/local/bin. elijah wright elw@stderr.org