Compiling and installing Python 2.7.6 on CentOS

Compiling and installing Python 2.7.6 on CentOS.

OS: CentOS 6.5

Instructions: http://darryldias.me/blog/compile-and-install-python-2-7-6-on-cent-os
Commands used see below.

yum groupinstall ‘development tools’

yum install -y zlib-dev openssl-devel sqlite-devel bzip2-devel wget

wget http://python.org/ftp/python/2.7.6/Python-2.7.6.tar.xz

tar -xvf Python-2.7.6.tar.xz

cd Python-2.7.6.tar.xz

make

make install

make clean

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