From a terminal application within gnome, my default Python is:

[ykarant@jb344 ~]$ python
Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Feb 21 2013, 19:26:11)
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-3)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>>

despite having to install whatever the BlueGriffon build required.

A number of the responses concerning the build of BlueGriffon further 
underscore the general lack of polymorphism and encapsulation in the 
Linux environment as distributed.  In a proper modern OS environment, an 
application that requires non-system versions of applications (other 
than the core libraries required by the OS itself, a more daunting 
problem) would have only these in the path of both the building steps 
and during the execution of the built application, preferably still 
allowing a dynamic rather than a static image of the built application.

Yasha Karant

On 10/15/2013 12:06 AM, Steven J. Yellin wrote:
>      Python2.7 can be installed in, say, /usr/local/..., while leaving
> 2.6 (or for SL5, 2.4) as the default version.  When you then need to use
> version 2.7 there may be some pain with libraries, but perhaps not too
> much to endure.
>
> Steven Yellin
>
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>
>> I took a look a thte Fedora SRPM's, which unfortunately ended about 3
>> years
>> ago with a very out of date release. The current release requires Python
>> 2.7, which is begging for pain to install on an SL 6 system.
>>
>> SL 7 should be much more compatible with current releases.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/14/2013 04:20 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 10/14/2013 04:18 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I now have built from source BlueGriffon for X86-64 SL6x, version
>>>>> 1.7.2.99.20130729, Build 20131013142156, Codename 'Cla-de-Lue'
>>>>>
>>>>> I can provide detailed instructions or just a copy of both the
>>>>> mozconfig
>>>>> file used for the build and the typescript of the building.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have had to add a few RPMs to SL6x from other distributions.  There
>>>>> was a query on a different thread (same general topic, but a different
>>>>> subject line) as to why I used a 5x CentOS RPM for one of the
>>>>> dependencies of the build.  I could not find a 6x EL version.  The
>>>>> application was not a systems application that would
>>>>> overwrite/override
>>>>> other files, and seemed to be constrained with a unique
>>>>> identifier.  My
>>>>> experience is that many EL 5 and even EL 4 applications still "work"
>>>>> with EL 6, as did this.  Presumably, if the EL 6 version is available,
>>>>> that too would work.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yasha Karant
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Do you have a place to download the RPM?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I have the full directory as well as the built files -- but the source
>>> code did not come with any obvious configuration/script software to
>>> build a
>>> RPM.  Moreover, I do not have the personnel resources to support this
>>> application for future updates, although I expect that the steps that
>>> I did
>>> will work for such updates.
>>>
>>> I have not built this for the IA-32 platform, only X86-64.  Is anyone
>>> with
>>> an IA-32 SL6x development system willing to repeat the exercise to
>>> produce
>>> an IA-32 platform version?
>>>
>>> Can you supply the necessary information to build a RPM as well as
>>> properly specify dependencies?
>>>
>>> Yasha Karant
>>>
>>