It was pain to configure everything from scratch to run my Django application on Centos 5. So I thought I would save others' time by writing this blog!

Requirements:

You first need the following packages (use yum package manager for that):

gcc, gcc-c++, zlib, zlib-devel, openssl-devel, mysql, mysql-server, mysql-devel*, httpd, httpd-dev*

Install Python 2.5

Download, unzip, enter its directory, configure, make and install:

$ cd
$ wgethttp://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.5.4/Python-2.5.4.tgz
$ tar xvfz Python-2.5.4.tgz
$ cd Python-2.5.4

You need to compile it with zlib support. Therefore, you must first have zlib and zlib-devel installed:

$ ./configure --with-threads ...

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