Comments on: Easy Python 2.6 / Django on CentOS 5

By: Peter Hanley

Peter Hanley — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:15:29 +0000

I worked around the easy_install problem (i.e. that easy_install installed to /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/) by doing

alias easy26='sudo python26 /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/easy_install.py'

and then installing libraries with easy26:

easy26 python26-flickrapi

The right way? Probably not? Did it work? Probably.

By: heyu

heyu — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:08:00 +0000

centos sucks nuts, using old ass crusty software because the devs believe that it is “stable” or “secure” is crap, that old GCC is worthless.

By: derelict

derelict — Wed, 18 May 2011 23:53:37 +0000

@ed & @matt — try removing mod_python first (unless you really need it in its current version), that cleared it for me. THANK YOU SO MUCH this was an easy workaround for my CentOS 5 install.

By: Matt Mah

Matt Mah — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:49:57 +0000

plus one on ed davidson’s error:

‘mod_python26 conflicts with mod_python’

After removing mod_python26 from the list of packages the yum install went flawlessly.

I am guessing that until I get mod_python26 installed I cannot take advantage of the 2.6 hotness with Django.

By: ed davison

ed davison — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:46:54 +0000

Just tried to update this (and thanks for the repo!) and am getting an error:

mod_python26-3.3.1-11.i386 from chl has depsolving problems
–> mod_python26 conflicts with mod_python
Error: mod_python26 conflicts with mod_python
You could try using –skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: package-cleanup –problems
package-cleanup –dupes
rpm -Va –nofiles –nodigest
The program package-cleanup is found in the yum-utils package.

By: jack mullen

jack mullen — Wed, 19 May 2010 21:58:14 +0000

Thank you Chris :

The procedure was fast , easy and it worked !

By: Ben Timby

Ben Timby — Mon, 17 May 2010 17:36:52 +0000

Chris, thanks for doing this.

I just finished following your lead but for x86_64 and mod_wsgi. I also updated some of the RPMs, and built a bunch of other packages for python26-* libraries that my app needed.

Maybe one of your readers will find my work useful!

http://ben.timby.com/?p=123

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:17:11 +0000

Hey sydney,
I am far away from being a crack in CentOS, but it looks like for some reason std. pythong binary was replaced by the 2.6.x version. You should have a look of there is more than one binary available in /usr/bin or whereever it is supposed to be. just enter which python and look in the path that it returns.
If other version of python is still there create a symlink in that place called python and link it to python 2.4.x version.

Try a bit, but make sure to be able to revert back to the config now.

Just an idea from a beginner of CentOS but a long time user of *nix.

By: Sidney

Sidney — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 14:35:34 +0000

I updated Python on my CentOs5.4 system, everything checked out except I can’t seem to get YUM to work anymore. I read the faq but didn’t sort it out. Can you please help?

thanks – sidney

————–

[root@Linux /]# python -V
Python 2.6.5
[root@Linux /]# yum
There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:

No module named yum

Please install a package which provides this module, or
verify that the module is installed correctly.

It’s possible that the above module doesn’t match the
current version of Python, which is:
2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 25 2010, 05:32:41)
[GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-46)]

If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to
the yum faq at:
http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/Faq

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:53:21 +0000

Chris,

Another thing… your version of python-setuptools breaks things like pip:

[root@django /]# pip
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/pip”, line 2, in ?
import pip
File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pip.py”, line 6, in ?
import pkg_resources
ImportError: No module named pkg_resources

Easy enough to fix this with a few links:

cd /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/
ln -s /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources*
ln -s /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.pyo
ln -s /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.pyc
ln -s /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py

Cheers,

Andrew