如何为2.6版本安装python-devel？

Question

i use centos 5.4 ,the default python version is python2.4,so i use the python2.6.2.tar.gz compile a python 2.6 version

and now i want to intstall board review project it need install python-devel package,if i use yum install python-devel,it will install the python2.4 relevent version python-devel,

how could i get a python2.6 version devel package install?

Answer 1

If you enable the EPEL repo, you can install python 2.6 and the devel headers using yum:

# yum install python26
# yum install python26-devel

These packages won't then conflict with the python 2.4 ones.

Answer 2

Looks like it is more system administration than it should be required. Here are some helpful pointers:

1. http://blog.milford.io/2010/08/new-method-for-installing-python-2-6-4-with-mysql-python-on-centos-5-5/
2. How to install python2.6-devel package under CentOs 5

However, if you are just installing reviewboard software, you can go to http://www.python.org download the package, do a ./configure, make and make altinstall to a local version and then point that interpreter to your reviewboard download's setup.py file.