Re: [TCLUG:7171] compiling vs. RPM

[Nate Carlson <natecars@infiniteloop.com>]

Yup, it's safe. Worse comes to worse, you can uninstall the
source-installed version of python by doing 'make uninstall', and
reinstall the rpm.

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Nate Carlson
the infinite loop
natecars@infiniteloop.com

On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Tim Wilson wrote:

> Hey *,
> 
> I'd like to install Zope on a machine on my network. Incidentally, very
> cool. Check out http://www.zope.org/
> 
> I've already got python 1.5.1 installed on this machine via RPM (RedHat
> 6). I haven't found an RPM of 1.5.2 yet (required for Zope) and I wouldn't
> mind compiling my own.
> 
> Is it safe to 'rpm -e python' and then go ahead and compile the python
> source? I may do the same procedure for Apache.
> 
> -Tim
> 
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