‘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.

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.

The procedure was fast , easy and it worked !

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

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.

thanks – sidney

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[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

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

Thanks for this info, and making your repos available.

I’ve just tried this on a very very minimal clean 5.4 install and get the following error:

Error: Missing Dependency: libffi.so.5 is needed by package python26-2.6.2-2.i386 (chl)

Looks like libffi is needed, but that package isn’t available in any default CentOS repos. It’s available in the Fedora EPEL CentOS repos… you might want to note that.

Cheers,

Andrew

Cheers for posting this and creating a repo.

Just a note for those who want to create their own RPMs (for example to package fresh and new python ) I’ve created a quick guide how to package Python manually:

http://www.grenadepod.com/2009/12/26/building-python-2-6-4-rpm-for-centos-5-4/

Thanks!