Linux RPMs for Python 2.2

--- New: now up-to-date for 2.2 final! ---

Made available by Sean Reifschneider.

New in this version (2.2-2)

It includes a "-docs" package which includes the Python docs in HTML and info formats.
The SRPM includes a tkinter "auto" option (the default) which only builds tkinter if /usr/bin/wish exists.

Download

Source:
- python2-2.2-2.src.rpm
- expat-1.1-4tummy.src.rpm (Needed for building Python SRPM, for systems that don't provide expat-devel)
Binary for RedHat-7.2-based systems:
- python2-2.2-2.i386.rpm (RedHat-based 7.2 base RPM)
- python2-tkinter-2.2-2.i386.rpm (RedHat-based 7.2 tkinter RPM)
- python2-devel-2.2-2.i386.rpm (RedHat-based 7.2 development RPM)
- python2-tools-2.2-2.i386.rpm (RedHat-based 7.2 Tools RPM, including IDLE)
- python2-docs-2.2-2.i386.rpm (Documentation in HTML and info formats) (NEW)

Shy of RPMs because of library or other dependency problems with most of the RPMs you pick up? The cure may be to pick up an SRPM (Source RPM). All you need to do to build a binary package tailored to your system is run

    rpm --rebuild <packagename>.src.rpm

Note: this does not actually install <packagename>. The end products (.rpm files as indicated by the "Wrote:" stdout lines) must be subsequently installed with `rpm -U` or the equivalent.

For Red Hat 6.2 Users

There have been folks having problems with building on a variety of 6.2 platforms, largely related to them not having other dependencies ("What does it mean when it says I need to have "openssl-devel" installed to build the RPM? ;-) Here are a set of binaries built against Red Hat 6.2: click here.