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No matter what I try, I cannot do this. I'm on Centos 5.6 x86_64

1 python setup.py bdist_rmp gives me syntax error:

[root@localhost Python-2.7.3]# python setup.py bdist_rpm
  File "setup.py", line 361
    with open(tmpfile) as fp:

2 checkinstall python setup.py install outputs the same syntax error as above.

3 checkinstall make install and has a lot of ignoring ... statements in the stdout and the final RPM doesn't have most of files.

4 Using this shell script I can get python installed and build the RPM package with python setup.py bdist_rpm method, however, the python 2.7 package will require python 2.7 as it's dependency.

EDIT: Actually, no, the #4 doesn't work either.

I tired different ./configure --prefix values, none of them made any difference.

I've read many options how to install python on Centos, but 99% of suggesting using plain 'make install' which I need to avoid.

Thanks in advance.

EDIT

I was able to package it with this command:

checkinstall --fstrans=no --install=no --pkgname=python --pkgversion "2.7.3" --default

However, when I try to install it with rpm -i I get this:

error: Failed dependencies:
    libtcl8.4.so()(64bit) is needed by python-2.7.3-1.x86_64
    libtk8.4.so()(64bit) is needed by python-2.7.3-1.x86_64
python < 2.4.3-32.el5 conflicts with python-libs-2.4.3-44.el5.x86_64

The missing dependency are understandable, however it's one obvious what's in conflict and how to resolve it.

Aleksandr Makov
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  • Your error message is incomplete. Please paste the entire message. – Michael Hampton Mar 15 '13 at 11:06
  • @MichaelHampton thank you for your interest. However, it is indeed the full error message i get for `python setup.py bdist_rmp` command. Also I got some progress with `checkinstall`, but now I'm stuck with conflict problem. – Aleksandr Makov Mar 15 '13 at 11:35

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Instead of messing with your local system packages trying to build this, I would suggest you look at using Fedora's Mock. Regarding the conflicts you're getting take a look at the requires for python 2.4 using: 

rpm -qR python (and the version if it is not the system release)

It's probably just that Python 2.4 requires an older version of python-libs.

Forrest
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