parallel installation of another python version in Linux(RHEL)

Question

In my RHEL linux python 2.6 is installed. I want to do a parallel installation of python 2.7 along with pip. Could you please guide me in right direction.

Answer 1

Use Red Hat Software Collections - http://developers.redhat.com/products/softwarecollections/overview/ . This is exactly for parallel install of newer versions. For Python, there's 2.7 and 3.4 (maybe 3.3 too - I've forgotten). Other stuff too. HTH.

And - it's part of RHEL subscription. It's still Yum install, but a bit different. Here are the steps for Python 3.4, but you can follow for 2.7: http://developers.redhat.com/products/softwarecollections/get-started-rhel7-python/