Here you have it, folks. A shell script that will handle all the ugliness associated with installing Python 2.7 on CentOS 5.6 (and probably CentOS 5.7, too).
Use the following command in your shell (the easy way):
wget -q -O http://codingwithcody.com/downloads/python_27_on_centos_56/install.sh | sh
Alternately, you can download and run it manually: Download install.sh
Here are the tarballs used just in case the servers hosting them go down and you’re eager to get Python 2.7 working:
And, just FYI, here’s the contents of install.sh:
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yum -y install gcc gdbm-devel readline-devel ncurses-devel zlib-devel bzip2-devel sqlite-devel db4-devel openssl-devel tk-devel bluez-libs-devel make cd /var/tmp wget http://sqlite.org/sqlite-amalgamation-3.7.3.tar.gz tar xfz sqlite-amalgamation-3.7.3.tar.gz cd sqlite-3.7.3/ ./configure make make install cd /var/tmp wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.1/Python-2.7.1.tgz tar xvfz Python-2.7.1.tgz cd Python-2.7.1 ./configure --prefix=/opt/python2.7.1 --with-threads --enable-shared make make install touch /etc/ld.so.conf.d/opt-python2.7.1.conf echo "/opt/python2.7.1/lib/" >> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/opt-python2.7.1.conf ldconfig ln -sf /opt/python2.7.1/bin/python /usr/bin/python2.7 cd /var/tmp wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg --prefix=/opt/python2.7.1 /opt/python2.7.1/bin/easy_install pip ln -sf /opt/python2.7.1/bin/pip /usr/bin/pip pip install virtualenv ln -sf /opt/python2.7.1/bin/virtualenv /usr/bin/virtualenv mv /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python-backup ln -s /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/python |
Any improvements are more than welcome. Enjoy and happy coding!
Great! It installed fine for me! thanks!
This typo needs to be corrected: bzip2-develsqlite-devel in the 1st line of the install.sh file.
Good catch, Emre. Applying that correction now.