[Zope] Re: installing Zope and Python in userdir/linux

[Wolfram Kraus]

Matthias Taras wrote:
> hi list,
> i am using Zope,Python and Plone for around 2 weeks now locally on an OSX
> machine. now i planned to port a rather big site to ZOPE, but i run into the
> following problem:
> our linux machine is running trustix TSL linux, which has python 2.2.3
> installed system wide. Now, as i want to run the latest stable ZOPE version
> and also Plone 2.0.5, i am thinking about how to proceed.
> 
> 
>>The recommended versions at the moment (for Plone 2.0.x)
>>are Python 2.3.3 or 2.3.4 and Zope 2.7.x 
> 
> 
> i was wondering if it is possible to install a current Python release in a
> local user dir and run ZOPE from that custom Python version?
> any clues or instructions how to do so?
> 
> thanks!
> Matthias Tarasiewicz
> 
Install Python from the source. Use the prefix-option when running 
configure, from Python's "./configure --help":
By default, `make install' will install all the files in
`/usr/local/bin', `/usr/local/lib' etc.  You can specify
an installation prefix other than `/usr/local' using `--prefix',
for instance `--prefix=$HOME'.

The same applies to Zope, but here the --with-python option is needed, 
too. See ./configure --help

HTH,
Wolfram