installing bzr on CentOS 5

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Modern versions of bzr will not work with Python 2.4.

Just running the setup script under python2.6 should make bzr install with
2.6 ("python2.6 setup.py install").

Alternatively, you could install a version of bzr-explorer/qbzr from the same
year as bzr 2.3.3, e.g. something from 2011. 

Jelmer

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 03:55:57PM -0700, Keith Bierman wrote:
> Fair enough.
> 
> Given that python 2.6 installs alongside 2.4 in CentOS 5 (indeed, having
> /usr/bin/python link to 2.6 causes yum to fail, so it seems ill-advised!
> ;>) what is the correct way to build bzr using the 2.6 python OR is it
> considered better form to have bzr stick with the system's ancient 2.4?
> 
> Keith Bierman
> khbkhb at gmail.com
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> 303 997 2749
> 
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at jelmer.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 08:41:08PM +0000, Keith Bierman wrote:
> > > I'd found the old post: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-
> > > control.bazaar-ng.general/36410/match=centos+5
> > >
> > > However, that wasn't working. But I did find rpmforge's repos do have
> > > bzr and bzrtools (but not -gtk and olive).
> > >
> > > after installation of bzr itself, I sought to install bzr-explorer and
> > > since that wasn't in the repos (EPEL or sourceforge) I tried
> > >
> > > mkdir -p .bazaar/plugins
> > > cd .bazaar/plugins
> > >
> > > bzr branch lp:qbzr
> > > bzr branch lp:bzr-explorer explorer
> > >
> > >
> > > Sadly then explorer fails rather badly (see below for details).   Is
> > > there a good way to install bzr with the GUI tools on CentOS 5 these
> > > days? If so, can someone please point me to the appropriate RTFM? Thanks
> >
> > It looks like the version of bzr you have installed is ancient (version
> > 2.3.3) and almost five years old.
> >
> > The version of qbzr/bzr-explorer you have installed is incompatible with
> > this version of bzr.
> >
> > Unfortunately this probably means that you will have to install bzr from
> > source, rather than from a Centos 5 package.
> >
> >
> > Jelmer
> >