Install Python 3 on CentOS 6

The latest release of Python 3 is 3.3.2, and there’s no package available on CentOS repo via yum. The following steps explains how to manually get Python 3 onto a CentOS system: Install development tools # yum groupinstall "Development Tools" # yum install zlib-devel bzip2-devel openssl-devel \ ncurses-devel sqlite-devel readline-devel tk-devel Download and install Python $ wget http://python.org/ftp/python/3.3.2/Python-3.3.2.tar.bz2 $ tar xjf Python-3.3.2.tar.bz2 $ cd Python-3.3.2 $ ./configure --prefix=/opt/python3 $ make $ make install</pre> Test...

September 4, 2013 · 1 min · 81 words · kenno

Python MySQLdb package for Debian

I try to use MySQLdb module with my Python code for the first time. This is what I see: import MySQLdb Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ImportError: No module named MySQLdb your code here For Debian, the package for MySQLdb module is python-mysqldb. # apt-get install python-mysqldb Now, let’s verify if MySQLdb module has been correctly installed: >>> import MySQLdb >>> No more import error message, which means you can start using MySQldb module now....

November 9, 2008 · 1 min · 80 words · kenno