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Where is the best repository you use to obtain RPMs for Python 3.0 which are well maintained?

Jonathan Prior
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You can try package from ActiveState http://www.activestate.com/activepython/downloads. It doesn't depend on package manager (just unpack and run "install.sh").

Or you can compile Python and create package by yourself

Here is how to create RPM by yourself:

Here is how you can compile it:

./configure
make
make test
sudo make install    # or "make altinstall"
Alex Bolotov
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Please note that many of the tools redhat ships rely on python, so you're probably better off building from source and installing in /usr/local/ or using a bleeding edge release like Fedora 11.

joshuadfranklin
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I doubt as there are any. I have always been quite successful installing python 3000 from source and running it so you would probably be ok doing that its quite nice and easy - that way you can also run multiple versions of python at the same time in order to maintain compatibility with any older scripts you may be running. Just remember that centos isn't really designed for new and emerging technologies so it will be a long time before python 3 comes into the official repos.

PixelSmack
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I find the openSUSE build page very useful.

One of the neat things Novell got when they bought SUSE was the Autobuild model. I am told it is a reasonably large cluster of devices (in the hundreds, last I asked) that recompiles most anything for all the platforms they officially support. (x86, x86_64, IA64, IBM mainframe hardware, PowerPC, etc).

They extended Autobuild to also build most packages for most OS's!!

http://software.opensuse.org/search

I see lots of Python packages for RHEL 5, but I did not spend the time to see if 3.0 is in there as I could not quite figure out the search fast enough.

Since you are motivated, you can spend more time on it.

Hope this helps!

geoffc
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rpmbuild --rebuild http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/source/SRPMS/python-2.6-7.fc11.src.rpm

if you really want 3.0 (which is almost broken because a bottleneck in io) just change .spec file

c00p3r
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well you can always build your own:

http://www.grenadepod.com/2009/12/26/building-python-2-6-4-rpm-for-centos-5-4/

as the saying goes - if you want to have something done properly, do it yourself... :)

rytis
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