Installing Python 2.5 on CentOS 5
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March 4th, 2009, @ 2:08 amI needed to do this to get Trac’s gitPlugin working. The gitPlugin has a requirement for Python 2.5. After googling I stumbled into the blog.bashton.com site which provided a SRPM from which I could build the i386 version of Python 2.5. See my previous post about how to get this SRPM built and installed.
Once I got Python 2.5’s RPMS installed I wanted to get setuptools installed. So I kinda sorta loosely followed along this blog post over on perplexedlabs.com.
Point python to python25
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| alias python=/usr/bin/python25 |
Installing setuptools
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| # download setuptools
% wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.5/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.5.egg
# install
% sh setuptools-0.6c9-py2.5.egg
Processing setuptools-0.6c9-py2.5.egg
Copying setuptools-0.6c9-py2.5.egg to /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages
Adding setuptools 0.6c9 to easy-install.pth file
Installing easy_install script to /usr/bin
Installing easy_install-2.5 script to /usr/bin
Installed /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.5.egg
Processing dependencies for setuptools==0.6c9
Finished processing dependencies for setuptools==0.6c9 |
Installing MySQLdb
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| % easy_install MySQL-python
Searching for MySQL-python
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/MySQL-python/
Reading http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python
Reading http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/
Best match: MySQL-python 1.2.3b1
Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.5/M/MySQL-python/MySQL_python-1.2.3b1-py2.5-linux-i686.egg#md5=43ace300f3eda0fc418869b04a5139eb
Processing MySQL_python-1.2.3b1-py2.5-linux-i686.egg
Moving MySQL_python-1.2.3b1-py2.5-linux-i686.egg to /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages
Adding MySQL-python 1.2.3b1 to easy-install.pth file
Installed /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/MySQL_python-1.2.3b1-py2.5-linux-i686.egg
Processing dependencies for MySQL-python
Finished processing dependencies for MySQL-python |
Installing MySQL
Test out python25 setup thus far …
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| % python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Mar 4 2009, 00:53:48)
[GCC 4.1.2 20071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-42)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sqlite3
>>> import MySQLdb |
Looks good!
March 4th, 2009, @ 2:08 am |
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Thanks m8, wasn’t sure about easy_install either, appreciate the post!