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Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain

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From	Benedict Verheyen <benedict.verheyen@gmail.com>
Subject	Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain
Date	Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:42:08 +0100
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On 20/01/2012 12:42, Anssi Saari wrote:
> Benedict Verheyen <benedict.verheyen@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> If i need to install a new version of Python, as I happen to have done today,
>> I only need to do step 4. Which is maybe 5 minutes of work.
> 
> I don't really understand why you compile these common libraries (zlib,
> ncurses, readline) yourself instead of using the relevant libraries
> provided by your Debian system? Is it just that you didn't *know* Debian
> puts parts needed for compilation in separate packages so you'd need to
> install those first?
> 

I know Debian puts them in separate packages dev libraries,  I was merely interested
in building them myself, as it isn't really a pain to do so.
I hadn't previously messed about a lot with compiling packages and I wanted to try it out
for Python.

Cheers,
Benedict

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  Re: Installing Python on CentOS 6 - a big pain Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan@case.edu> - 2012-01-18 13:30 -0500
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          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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