Installing Python

Procedure

1. Use PuTTY to log in to the server as the root user.
2. Upload the Python source package to the path/to/PYTHON directory.
3. Decompress the Python installation package.

   cd /path/to/PYTHON
   tar -zxvf Python-2.5.tgz

4. Go to the directory generated after the decompression.

   cd Python-2.5

5. Perform the configuration.

   SVNVERSION=not-found ./configure --prefix=path/to/PYTHON

6. Perform the compilation and installation.

   make -j 16
   make install

7. Set the Python environment variable.

   export PATH=path/to/PYTHON/bin:$PATH