[PlanetCCRMA] python 2.3.4 or how to upgrade from source

[Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano]

On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 16:23, M P Smoak wrote:
> Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 16:54, patrick wrote:
> > > thanks for this, but i'm still confuse about what should i
> > > do with the rpm installation of planetccrma, should i do rpm
> > > -e --force and then compile python 2.3.4 from source? or
> > > should i leave the rpm there? because lots of package
> > > depends on it...
> >
> > You should leave the rpm there. If you install from source the
> > new python with the configuration switches that Kjetil
> > suggests it will not clash with the one included in the rpm.
> >
> > > i'm confuse about having 1 rpm and 1 source in the same box.
> >
> > The rpm installs its files in one location, the "compile from
> > source" install installs them in a different location. No
> > conflict (hopefuly :-)
> >
> > -- Fernando
> 
> Does this apply in general?  ie could I change from the version of
> Konqueror for instance, by installing from source?  Or KDE in total.
> I'm on RH9 and interested in upgrading some things.

Something as complex as KDE I would not touch (at least in the sense of
compiling it from source). I don't think you could make two versions
coexist. It would make more sense to try to find a repository that has
packages that you can use to upgrade, I think there is one for kde. But
even then it is probably not trivial. 

-- Fernando