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[Tim Soderstrom <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Garey!

I could be wrong, but I believe Python 2.6 is designed to be side-by-side. You don't want to go ripping out the RHEL version of Python since that could break a ton of things (most notably 'yum'). Thus you should just be able to do something like 'yum install python26' and be good to go. Again, I could be wrong since I haven't done that myself but I think that's how IUS is setup.

Hope that helps!

Tim


On Jan 27, 2011, at 6:12 PM, Garey Mills wrote:

> I have a RedHat RHEL 5 installation, and I would like to update the
> Python to 2.6. However, when I go to erase the current Python (2.4), yum
> wants to erase some 396 packages. What is the process I should follow to
> upgrade the Python, or is it more common to install Python2.6 parallel
> to the supplied Python?
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