UPDATED: January 31st, 2011: Python 2.6 now is in the normal EPEL repositories. There are some changes in the explanations below
I’ve always hated Centos, probably because I’ve never been in a situation where I had to deal with the network security (other than the obvious stuff to ward off cross-site-scripting attacks and the such). Of course, that being the case, I did wind up dealing with CentOS at work and I had to get Django, Python 2.6 and the such functional.
Centos throws a few curveballs your way.. YUM is built on Python 2.4, and upgrading to a newer version supposedly breaks the program. Going back to Python 2.4 was not an option, mainly because all my python experience is on Python 2.5 / 2.6, and I don’t want to go back and learn an older non-maintained version of the language for a server. On the other hand, I didn’t want to lobby to just install Ubuntu.
This assumes you already have a normal LAMP setup. Furthermore, I’m assuming you do not have mod_python installed. This threw me for a loop for the longest time, so take this for what its worth.
The VERY FIRST STEP (if you are running a clean install of CentOS) is to get the dev tools installed.
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