One trick I do is to isolate the install to a directory. When you run: > $ ./configure add --PREFIX={directory} It looks like this (for example): ./configure --PREFIX=/home/abc/python3 When you run 'make install', everything gets installed into this directory. Thanks, James On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 01:37 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > (i just asked about this on the test list but it seems that it's > equally appropriate here.) > > any problems with installing python-3.1.1 side-by-side on a fedora > 11 system, and having programmers invoke it with an explicit reference > to "python3"? > > just for fun, i grabbed : > > http://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.1.1/Python-3.1.1.tar.bz2 > > unloaded it under my home directory, found out quickly that i needed > to install tk-devel, tcl-devel and libsqlite3x-devel, did that, then > -- following the README -- ran > > $ ./configure > $ make > $ make test > > the only glitches were, during the test step, the occasional > diagnostic that a test was being skipped because some resource wasn't > enabled, such as: > > ... > test_codecmaps_cn > test_codecmaps_cn skipped -- Use of the `urlfetch' resource not enabled > ... > > beyond that, things seemed to work, after which i'd normally run > > # make install > > if anyone else has gone down this road, any warnings? and any hint as > to how to get that 'urlfetch' resource? there doesn't appear to be > anything in the configure step that enables or disables that, and that > diagnostic shows up several times, albeit not fatally. > > in any event, can installing python-3.1.1 like this cause any grief > with the current system? it's mostly for people who want to start > programming in python, and it seems to make sense to start them off > with python 3. > > rday > -- > > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA > > Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. > > Web page: http://crashcourse.ca > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday > ======================================================================== > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines