> so there shouldn't be much holding you back. Four words: Red Hat Enterpris...

sp332 · on Oct 10, 2011

  wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7/Python-2.7.tgz
  tar xvfz Python-2.7.tgz
  cd Python-2.7
  ./configure
  make
  su
  make altinstall

Note: use "make altinstall" to avoid damaging the system python.

sneak · on Oct 10, 2011

If you have make or a compiler installed on a RHEL system (other than your organizational build machine), you're Doing It Wrong.

cturner · on Oct 10, 2011

I install from source to /opt. It's fast and it works. What's the downside of this?

mattyb · on Oct 10, 2011

I suspect sneak is implying that you should build packages on a build box, then your other servers can just grab those instead of compiling themselves. It's a good idea.

dextorious · on Oct 10, 2011

If you assume you have the right/knowledge to tell ME how to use MY RHEL, you assume wrong.

arb · on Oct 10, 2011

And Ubuntu LTS.

eliben · on Oct 13, 2011

Yep, unfortunately, which is why the follow-up post (http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2011/10/10/installing-python-2-...) came. Had Ubuntu 10.04 given me Python 2.7 with the usual `apt-get install`, there would be no need to install it from source.