a twisted question

[xam]

Hi All,
I have got a bit of a complicated situation here:
I need to get buildBot (and hence twisted) running on RH 7.1, which
currently has python 1.5 installed. From browsing newsgroups it appears that
I cannot overwritte 1.5 due to some RH scripts relying on that version. So:
1) can twisted run on 1.5? I could not find this info in the docs.
2) if not, can it run on parallel-installed later version?
3) if so, could someone give me a hint on installing a parallel version?

thanks,
max.

 

[Andrew Bennetts]

Hi All,
I have got a bit of a complicated situation here:
I need to get buildBot (and hence twisted) running on RH 7.1, which
currently has python 1.5 installed. From browsing newsgroups it appears that
I cannot overwritte 1.5 due to some RH scripts relying on that version. So:
1) can twisted run on 1.5? I could not find this info in the docs.

Current Twisted requires Python 2.2 (it also works with 2.3).

2) if not, can it run on parallel-installed later version?

Sure, although I don't know the details of doing this under Red Hat 7.1.

3) if so, could someone give me a hint on installing a parallel version?

Failing all else, you could download the latest 2.2 (or 2.3) source tarball
from python.org, and compile and install it to /usr/local, but then you
don't get the benefit of RH's package managment...

-Andrew.

 

[hokiegal99]

On my RH boxes, the distro's Python pkg is installed in /usr/bin/
however, when you download and install the latest stable Python (2.3),
it should install into /usr/local/bin/. This setup works for me. I used
it for testing when I needed 2.3b2 functionality w/o problem.

 

[xam]

ok,
1) thanks
2) status update:
I successfully installed 2.2.3 as a parallel install. it is mapped to
python2 on my system. How do I induce Twisted to work off of that copy?
thanks,
max.