On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 00:22 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 09:40 -0700, Jamie Bohr wrote: > > Hello, > > > > My department has chosen Plone as a CMS tool. We already have a RHEL > > V4 server we would like to host this on. RHEL V4 comes with Python > > 2.3.4, Plone requires Zope which requires Python 2.4.3. I could not > > find an RPM package for it, so before I compile and install it I was > > going to remove Python 2.3.4; there are tons of dependences I would > > rather not remove. I don't want to mess up this system because it is > > a production server (used very little) and looking for guidance on how > > to proceed. Should I install yum and point it to some Fedora sources > > for Python, Zope and Plone? Is there a source out there for newer > > Python, Zope and Plone that I did not find (I googled for them)? > > > > I would like to install all the packages by RPM, makes it easier to > > track what is installed on a system. > > Do not replace the system Python with a newer one. > You probably could install a newer python and its entire tree in another > location on the filesystem (maybe /usr/local or /opt ??) but leave the > system python intact or you will likely end up crying very bitter tears. > > I do not know of an rpm packaging for python that puts it in another > location but they probably could be built w/o too much trouble by just > redefining a few rpm macros before building them - and possibly change > the name of the package in spec file to make things easier on you. > The RPMs at PyVault (http://www.python.org/pyvault/) use the alternatives system so that you can have multiple versions of Python on the same system. Python 2.4 for RHEL/Centos 4 can be found at http://www.python.org/pyvault/centos-4-i386/repodata/repoview/python24-0-2.4.2-10.el4.pyv.html Tony
