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[BJ Dierkes <wdierkes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 27, 2011, at 6:17 PM, Tim Soderstrom wrote:

> 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.
> 

Absolutely right.  Python is one of those things that you never want to muck with.  For that reason it is a side-by-side parallel install.  Additionally, python26 was accepted into EPEL 5 and has been EOL'd from IUS.  Though, because IUS relies on EPEL its all the same if you're subscribed to both:

$ sudo yum install python26


You can then access it as:

$ /usr/bin/python2.6



Let us know if you need help beyond that.

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BJ Dierkes
Linux Systems Engineer IV / [RH]acker
Infrastructure Services [Development]
Rackspace Hosting


> 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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