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Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain

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On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 1:00 PM, John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> wrote:
>  It turns out that installing Python 2.7.2 on CentOS 6.0 is a lot of work.
>  Here are the official CentOS install instructions:
>
> http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=34515&forum=41
>
> Not only do you have to build Python from source, you have to install
> a lot of stuff before you can even build it.  Then you have to install
> various Python packages from multiple sources.  Python doesn't work
> with "yum"; you have to do it the hard way.
>
> I know how to do all this, but it takes hours.  I'm bringing up
> a bare dedicated server remotely, which is a routine operation.
>
>   Python does not "just work".  I should be able to command
> "yum install python27".  (And not clobber the Python 2.6 that
> comes with CentOS.)
>
>   This sort of thing is why Python is losing market share.
>
>
>                                        John Nagle
> --

What does this have to do with Python? It's CentOS (and Red Hat's)
decision not to provide a package for Python 2.7. It's not feasible
for the Python community to provide a repository for each of the 200+
Linux distributions. The instructions for building Python are exactly
the same as to build any other large project and there is absolutely
nothing that we can do about that- you can't compile a program without
a compiler and you can't link to other programs without the
development headers. You'll have the exact same problems if you want
to install gcc 4.6.2 unless some 3rd party has decided to build the
rpm for you.

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Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2012-01-18 10:00 -0800
  Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan@case.edu> - 2012-01-18 13:30 -0500
  Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2012-01-18 21:16 +0100
  Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-01-18 23:32 +0000
  Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain "Albert W. Hopkins" <marduk@letterboxes.org> - 2012-01-18 19:03 -0500
  Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2012-01-18 19:10 -0800
    Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-01-19 04:36 +0000
      Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-01-19 20:43 +1100
        Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-01-19 10:47 +0000
          Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-01-19 22:05 +1100
          Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain Noah Hall <enalicho@gmail.com> - 2012-01-19 11:08 +0000
          Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain Christian Heimes <lists@cheimes.de> - 2012-01-19 12:16 +0100
          Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-01-19 22:27 +1100
      Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain Benedict Verheyen <benedict.verheyen@gmail.com> - 2012-01-20 10:39 +0100
        Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2012-01-20 09:32 -0800
        Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2012-01-20 13:42 +0200
          Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain Benedict Verheyen <benedict.verheyen@gmail.com> - 2012-01-23 13:42 +0100

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