[NBLUG/talk] installing older versions of python

[jeff at dreadidread.homelinux.org]

> Zope absolutely won't work with the newer Python?
After digging a little further, I think it probably will run with 2.3. When I
started messing around with zope, it gave me a very forboding message. Something
like, "WARNING: Python2.3 is not supported and may cause errors. Consider using
2.1.3 instead". Always wanting to stay on the well-lit path, I turned away. ;-)

Thanks for the tip,

Jeff


Quoting E Frank Ball <frankb at efball.com>:

> On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 10:00:22AM -0500, jeff at dreadidread.homelinux.org
> wrote:
> } 
> } 
> } Hi All,
> } 
> } I have recently set up a new server using Mandrake 8.0.
> } I want to install Zope, but it requires an older version of python. I think
> the
> } default python version is 2.3, and Zope wants 2.1.3.
> 
> Zope absolutely won't work with the newer Python?
> 
> 
> } I downloaded a couple python 2.1.3 rpms. Now I'm getting into dependency
> issues.
> } It's looking for libcrypt.so.2, readline.so.4, and the like. I went out
> and
> } found some other rpms to cover the dependency issue, but they won't
> install,
> } because there's already a newer version there.
> 
> Try loading JUST THE PYTHON rpm by using rpm -Uvh --nodeps --oldpackage
> (or rpm -ivh --nodeps if the newer package isn't installed).
> 
> The system won't crash if python doesn't work, so this should be safe,
> do not start downgrading libaries this way.
> 
> If that won't execute properly then get an old tarball and compile it
> from the source.
> 
> -- 
> 
>    E Frank Ball   frankb at efball.com
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