[Zope] Redhat 8.0 and Zope

[Magnus Heino]

> Is python 2.1.x installed with RH8.0?
> I would guess that there is only one python installed by default. To have a 
> zope (and some others) dedicated python2.1 version would require a bit of 
> RPM fiddling manually. Am I wrong?
> 
> By the way, is there a simple what of getting them to coexist? Or rather, 
> how do you get them to coexist?

# tar zxvf Python-2.1.3.tgz

# cd Python-2.1.3

# CFLAGS='-D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64' OPT="-g -O2
$CFLAGS" ./configure

# make

# make altinstall

now you have python2.1 installed as python2.1 binary in
/usr/local/bin/python2.1 and libs in /usr/local/lib/python2.1/

With large file support...

/Magnus