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 ago with a very out of date release.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
>>
>