> On Sat, 30 Jul 2016, P. Larry Nelson wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Please don't shoot the questioner (me), as I have no experience with >> Python, other than knowing "what" it is and that my SL6.8 systems have >> version 2.6.6 installed. >> >> I have been asked by one of our Professors that one of his grad students >> apparently needs Python 2.7.x installed on our cluster (optimally in >> /usr/local, which is an NFS mounted dir everywhere). > > >> If the solution is indeed simple, I might proceed, otherwise, I'm >> of a tendency to reply to the Professor and student, "No way - won't work." >> I think the student probably has access to CERN systems that probably >> have what he's looking for. > > I see that Larry's requirement may have gone away, but for others > with the same request: > > The slc6-scl "Software Collections Library" repo has a suite of packages > python27-* which can be installed alongside the system python 2.6. > > They also have python33-* although those who want python3 may > want bleeding edge which is, IIRC, 3.4.something. > (Hmm bleeding edge is 3.6.0a3, latest is 3.5.2). > Also in SL software collections via ftp://sldist.fnal.gov/linux/scientific/6x/external_products/softwarecollections/yum-conf-softwarecollections-1.0-1.el6.noarch.rpm