Install node.js using alternate install of PYTHON

Question

My server is running CentOS 5.8 and uses PYTHON 2.4

I installed an alternate version of PYTHON 2.7 to use to install node.js

I have followed several different tutorials to get to this point and need a little help to finish

i am in the node directory and used this command for configure

/usr/bin/env python2.7 ./configure

when I ran the make command there was an error.

     File "../../tools/js2c.py", line 387
    except Error as e:
                  ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
make[1]: *** [/root/node/out/Release/obj/gen/libraries.cc] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/node/out'
make: *** [node] Error 2

I believe that's because it's using the 2.4 version of python. How can I force the make and make install command use my alternate install of python 2.7?

I'm a complete beginner to linux commands.

Answer 1

I accomplished this by doing the following. Full process

1. yum update -y
2. yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools"
3. installed git ... followed this ( https://stackoverflow.com/a/8327476/888640 )
4. Installed alternate version of PYTHON
5. wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.2/Python-2.7.2.tgz
6. tar -xvzf Python-2.7.2.tgz
7. cd Python-2.7.2
8. ./configure
9. make altinstall
10. cd
11. use the correct python version
12. mv /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python.old
13. ln -s /usr/local/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/python
14. install node
15. cd node
16. ./configure
17. make
18. make install
19. change back to normal version of python
20. mv /usr/bin/python.old /usr/bin/python