[K12OSN] Need help with a Python Upgrade on FC6

Robert Arkiletian robark at gmail.com
Wed Apr 9 18:57:33 UTC 2008


On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Nils Breunese <nils at breun.nl> wrote:
> >
>
>  I guess you should be able to install Python 2.5 from source in /usr/local
> which won't mess with the OS packages. Then you just need to make sure your
> game uses the install in /usr/local and not the version shipping with the
> OS.

Yes and you would have to ensure that /usr was before /usr/local in
the PATH for the OS to find python.(I think that behavior is default)
In addition students would not be able to type

python myprogram.py

but rather the full path to the newer version.

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Robert Arkiletian
Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada
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