Install python-2.7 on CentOS-5.6

Install python-2.7 on CentOS-5.6

 

Reference:

http://uniccus0223.blogspot.jp/2012/04/install-python-27-on-centos-56.html

yum -y install gcc gdbm-devel readline-devel ncurses-devel zlib-devel bzip2-devel sqlite-devel db4-devel openssl-devel tk-devel bluez-libs-devel make

 

cd /var/tmp

wget

tar xfz sqlite-amalgamation-3.7.3.tar.gz

cd sqlite-3.7.3/

./configure

make

make install

 

cd /var/tmp

wget

tar xvfz Python-2.7.1.tgz

cd Python-2.7.1

./configure --prefix=/opt/python2.7.1 --with-threads --enable-shared

make

make install

 

touch /etc/ld.so.conf.d/opt-python2.7.1.conf

echo "/opt/python2.7.1/lib/" >> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/opt-python2.7.1.conf

ldconfig

 

ln -sf /opt/python2.7.1/bin/python /usr/bin/python2.7

 

cd /var/tmp

wget

sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg --prefix=/opt/python2.7.1

ln -sf /opt/python2.7.1/bin/easy_install /usr/bin/easy_install

 

/opt/python2.7.1/bin/easy_install pip

ln -sf /opt/python2.7.1/bin/pip /usr/bin/pip

 

pip install virtualenv

ln -sf /opt/python2.7.1/bin/virtualenv /usr/bin/virtualenv

 

mv /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python-backup

ln -s /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/python

 

easy_install unittest2

easy_install nose

easy_install unittest-xml-reporting

 

 

升级安装好以后yum会无法使用，因为yum使用的是2.4版本的，所以要修改yum的配置文件以便能够识别2.4版本下的python

vim /usr/bin/yum

将文件头部的

#!/usr/bin/python

改成

#!/usr/bin/python2.4

就可以继续使用yum了