From: Konrad H. <hi...@cn...> - 2002-01-04 21:44:18
|
Joe Harrington <jh...@oo...> writes: > RPM. Plus, I can uninstall! What matters is what the general users > want, and they have spoken loudly in favor of package managers. I couldn't agree more. I tend to make many of my own RPMs, and still I prefer RPMs to straightforward installation in /usr/local. Clean updating and uninstalling is a big advantage. > /usr/bin/python2.1 exists under 7.2, and claims in its startup that it > existed in 7.1. You get 1.5.2 if you just type "python", but you get > 2.1.1 if you type "python2.1". alias python python2.1... Definitely not in 7.1, there was not Python 2.1 at all (before I installed it by hand). Konrad. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Konrad Hinsen | E-Mail: hi...@cn... Centre de Biophysique Moleculaire (CNRS) | Tel.: +33-2.38.25.56.24 Rue Charles Sadron | Fax: +33-2.38.63.15.17 45071 Orleans Cedex 2 | Deutsch/Esperanto/English/ France | Nederlands/Francais ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |