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> so there shouldn't be much holding you back.

Four words: Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

  wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7/Python-2.7.tgz
  tar xvfz Python-2.7.tgz
  cd Python-2.7
  ./configure
  make
  su
  make altinstall

Note: use "make altinstall" to avoid damaging the system python.

If you have make or a compiler installed on a RHEL system (other than your organizational build machine), you're Doing It Wrong.

I install from source to /opt. It's fast and it works. What's the downside of this?

I suspect sneak is implying that you should build packages on a build box, then your other servers can just grab those instead of compiling themselves. It's a good idea.

If you assume you have the right/knowledge to tell ME how to use MY RHEL, you assume wrong.

And Ubuntu LTS.

Yep, unfortunately, which is why the follow-up post (http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2011/10/10/installing-python-2-...) came. Had Ubuntu 10.04 given me Python 2.7 with the usual `apt-get install`, there would be no need to install it from source.

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