[ESS] Installing ESS on CentOS?

[James W. MacDonald]

Hi Spencer,

If you don't have root access (either by being on the sudoers list or 
having the root password), I am not sure you will be able to install in 
either /usr/local nor /opt, which IIRC, are owned by root.

The canonical way to install updated packages when you don't have root 
access (this holds true esp for things like R that you want to update 
regularly) is to do what Michael proposes below, but you can then do one 
of two things.

Either use ./configure --prefix=/yourhomedir/bin, then make and make 
install, which will put the binaries in a bin directory in your home 
directory that you can point to in your .bashrc file. Or you can simply 
do ./configure, then make and forgo the make install. Then the binaries 
will reside in e.g., ~/R-2.12.0/bin or ~/python_2.7/bin, and you can 
point to each one with an

export PATH=/your/paths:$PATH

in your .bashrc file.

Best,

Jim



On 10/27/2010 3:13 PM, Michael Hannon wrote:
>> Hi, Mike, et al.:
>>
>>        How can I make a parallel install of Python 2.7?
>>
>>        I've seen that suggestion before, but I don't know how to do that.
>>        Moreover, if I accidentally replace 2.4.3, it could create more
>>        problems.
>>        I'm not sure I need Python 2.7.  I need to download files from an FTP
>>        site and store them in a MySQL database.  A script that downloads
>>        files from an FTP site works using Python 2.6.5 under Vista_x64 but
>>        not under Python 2.4.3 under CentOS.  However, I was not able to
>>        access MySQL with Python under Vista.
>>
>>        Thanks for the detailed comparison of CentOS, Fedora, RHEL, etc.
>>
>>
>>        Thanks,
>>        Spencer
>
> Hi, Spencer.  I haven't done a parallel installation of Python in quite a
> while now, so I can't give you a real recipe.  I think you'd download the
> source "tarball" from:
>
>      http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7/Python-2.7.tgz
>
> Then unpack (tar -xzvf Python-2.7.tgz) and check the "readme" or equivalent
> files for further instructions.  The package will PROBABLY install in either:
>
>      /usr/local
>
> or
>
>     /opt
>
> by default.  Both of these directories are "orthogonal" to the directories
> used by Redhat, Fedora, etc.
>
> Assuming you have Python 2.7 installed in /usr/local, for instance, you
> basically just invoke that version instead of the system version.  You can do
> this in a number of ways:
>
>      (1) Invoke it with the full path name:
>
>              /usr/local/bin/python
>
>          (modify the location as appropriate for your system)
>
>      (2) Rename the new version and invoke Python via the new name:
>
>              cd /usr/local/bin
>              mv python python2.7
>              python2.7
>
>      (3) Change your PATH variable such that the operating system looks in
>          /usr/local before it looks in /usr.  The details of this vary,
>          depending on the shell you're using.  By default you're using bash,
>          so you could modify the file:
>
>              .bash_profile
>
>          in your login directory to include something like:
>
>              PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
>              export PATH
>
>           After doing that, any unqualified reference to "python" will invoke
>           /usr/local/bin/python
>
> -- Mike
>
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James W. MacDonald, M.S.
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University of Michigan
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