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Build a RPM of Python 2.5 on CentOS 5 / Redhat Enterprise (RHEL) 5
It’s such a pain to get a newer version of Python installed on Redhat/CentOS. RHEL 4/CentOS 4 comes with Python 2.3, and RHEL 5/CentOS 5 comes with Python 2.4. I have noticed more and more apps requiring Python >= 2.5, so I had to find a good way to build an RPM of Python 2.5. Based on some sites I found out there and some mods I made, here are the instructions:
% sudo yum install autoconf bzip2-devel db4-devel elf-utils \
expat-devel findutils gcc-c++ gdbm-devel glibc-devel gmp-devel \
mesa-libGL-devel libX11-devel libtermcap-devel ncurses-devel \
openssl-devel pkgconfig readline-devel sqlite-devel tar \
tix-devel tk-devel rpm-build zlib-devel
% test -f ~/.rpmmacros || echo %_topdir %\(echo \"\$HOME\"\)/rpm >> ~/.rpmmacros
% mkdir -p $HOME/rpm/{BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS}
% wget ftp://mirrors.kernel.org:/fedora/releases/10/Fedora/source/SRPMS/python-2*.src.rpm
% rpm -ivh python-2*.src.rpm
% rm python-2*.src.rpm
% sed -ie 's/DBLIBVER=4.7/DBLIBVER=4.3/' $HOME/rpm/SOURCES/python-2.5-config.patch
% sed -ie 's/db4-devel >= 4.7/db4-devel >= 4.3/' $HOME/rpm/SPECS/python.spec
% rpmbuild --define '__python_ver 25' -bb $HOME/rpm/SPECS/python.spec
Great Page Showing Some Cool Geek Posters
Kudos to the fellas at Pingdom for gathering a page showing some pretty slick geek posters. My favorite is probably the CAIDA network map (I have one like that from back in 2001. Memories…).