A Linux distribution of Python 1.5 for RedHat 5.0 and other RPM and glibc based systems This package consist of the following individual packages: 1) python-1.5-2.i386.rpm 2) python-curses-1.5-2.i386.rpm 3) python-devel-1.5-2.i386.rpm 4) python-doc-1.5-2.i386.rpm 5) python-gdbm-1.5-2.i386.rpm 6) python-tkinter-1.5-2.i386.rpm 7) python-zlib-1.5-2.i386.rpm 8) python-1.5-2.src.rpm The whole distribution is split up to make it possible to install the relevant packages depending on what your system looks like. May I split this even more up in the future if this is commenly requested. But the current packaging works very well for me. 1) This is the basic python packages that doesn't require anything more then an installed glibc. It includes most of the standard library that works on Linux boxes. 2) The official cursesinterface. This packages requires an installed copy of libncurses. Don't confuse this with my "new" cursesmodule which adds more ncurses features, this is a plain old curses interface. 3) Everything that you need to compile extensions module your self. 4) This packages doesn't include the Latex sources of the documentation, but the postscript and html documentation available at www.python.org. It also includes examples, demos and the Misc folder. 5) The python gdbm interface. Requires an installed gdbm package. 6) The whole tkinter stuff. 7) The zlib interface. Requires an installed zlib package. 8) The source RPM. Thinks you have to consider if you install these packages are: - if you don't install my tcl/tk distribution too, or don't patch your distribution to fit Guido's new "multithreaded" Tkinter, the Tkinter stuff won't work. Solution: Get my tcl/tk packages which work very well on vanilla RedHat 5.0 systems from ftp://ftp.rhein-zeitung.de/pub/comp/olis-rpms/Python-1.5-GLIBC - You have to install my rebuild of glint to use it again. This package is available at ftp://ftp.rhein-zeitung.de/pub/comp/olis-rpms/GLIBC/RPMS/i386/ - In order to make the tools using newt work again. (all the commandline setup tools of RedHat 5.0) you have to do the following. cp /usr/lib/python1.4/linux-i386/_snackmodule.so /usr/lib/python1.5/lib-dynload/ cp /usr/lib/python1.4/snack.py /usr/lib/python1.5/ Afterwards everything works really fine. So, this is all I think. Anything suggestions, bug reports, patches should be send to olli@rhein-zeitung.de and/or andrich@fga.de. Any updates will be posted in comp.lang.python and announced on my web page. http://rhein-zeitung.de/~olli/ or http://www.fga.de/~andrich/