Python 2.6 в CentOS5

Подсмотрено тут.

wget http://python.org/ftp/python/2.6.4/Python-2.6.4.tar.bz2

tar -xjf Python-2.6.4.tar.bz2

cd Python-2.6.4

yum install -y gcc make zlib-devel bzip2-devel openssl-devel readline-devel sqlite-devel gdbm-devel ncurses-devel

./configure --prefix=/opt/python26 --with-zlib=/usr/include

make

make install

ln -s /opt/python26/bin/python2.6 /usr/bin/python2.6

python2.6 -V

Теперь 2.6 версия вызывается через python2.6

Установка easy_install:

wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.6/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg#md5=bfa92100bd772d5a213eedd356d64086

sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg

ln -s /opt/python26/bin/easy_install-2.6 /usr/bin/easy_install-2.6

easy_install-2.6 --help

Соответственно вызывать через easy_install-2.6