I have a shell that runs CentOS.
For a project I'm doing, I need python 2.5+, but centOS is pretty dependent on 2.4.
From what I've read, a number of things will break if you upgrade to 2.5.
I want to install 2.5 separately from 2.4, but I'm not sure how to do it. So far I've downloaded the source tarball, untarred it, and did a ./configure --prefix=/opt which is where I want it to end up. Can I now just make, make install ? Or is there more?
No need to do yum or make your own RPM. Build python26 from source.
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.6/Python-2.6.6.tgz
tar -zxvf Python-2.6.6.tgz
cd Python-2.6.6
./configure && make && make install
There can be a dependency error use
yum install gcc cc
Add the install path (/usr/local/bin/python by default) to ~/.bash_profile.
It will not break yum or any other things which are dependent on python24.
you can always make your own RPM:
http://www.grenadepod.com/2009/12/26/building-python-2-6-4-rpm-for-centos-5-4/
Missing Dependency: libffi.so.5 is here :
Type the following commands on the terminal to install Python 3.6 on CentOS 7:
$ sudo yum install https://centos7.iuscommunity.org/ius-release.rpm
Then do :
$ sudo yum install python36u
You can also install any version instead of 3.6 (if you want to) by just replacing 36 by your version number.