CentOS 6.6 + GDB 7.5 + Python 2.7

[baloo]

I need the configuration in subject to work properly with gdb inside QtCreator 3.4, but i have many issues with rpms dependencies.
Someone could help me?

thanks in advance

[TrevorH]

You can find sane parallel installable python27* packages in the IUS Community repo for CentOS 6. CentOS 6 ships gdb 7.2-75 and I am not aware that any reputable repo ships a newer version. You cannot just grab random RPMs intended for different distributions and expect them to install on CentOS 6 - things have to be built specifically for your distro. You can find instructions in the wiki about how to setup an rpmbuild environment and how to rebuild an SRPM for e.g. Fedora so that it works on CentOS but you will be responsible for the support of your own packages.

[chemal]

RH's devtoolsets have gdb 7.5.0, 7.6.1, and 7.8.2 in 1.1, 2.1, and 3.1, respectively. You can get 1.1 and 2.1 from CERN and 3.1 from softwarecollections.org. Softwarecollections.org also has a python 2.7 package which I prefer to the IUS one, because they have more python modules available.

[MzK]

You can find sane parallel installable python27* packages in the IUS Community repo for CentOS 6. CentOS 6 ships gdb 7.2-75 and I am not aware that any reputable repo ships a newer version. You cannot just grab random RPMs intended for different distributions and expect them to install on CentOS 6 - things have to be built specifically for your distro. You can find instructions in the wiki about how to setup an rpmbuild environment and how to rebuild an SRPM for e.g. Fedora so that it works on CentOS but you will be responsible for the support of your own packages.

Thanks TrevorH -- I will check this out!

[MzK]

You can find sane parallel installable python27* packages in the IUS Community repo for CentOS 6. CentOS 6 ships gdb 7.2-75 and I am not aware that any reputable repo ships a newer version. You cannot just grab random RPMs intended for different distributions and expect them to install on CentOS 6 - things have to be built specifically for your distro. You can find instructions in the wiki about how to setup an rpmbuild environment and how to rebuild an SRPM for e.g. Fedora so that it works on CentOS but you will be responsible for the support of your own packages.

Thanks TrevorH -- I will check this out!

I was able to successfully install python 2.7 without destroying the system required python 2.6. I went to IUS but installed the individual rpms, through yum, that I wanted rather than enabling the entire repo, noting their warnings about replacement. So, with a bit of futzing with the scripts I had, etc., all good!

[TrevorH]

The problem with downloading individual rpms and installing them and not using the repo is that you will now not get an update for the packages you downloaded next time they are updated. You would do better to install the ius-release package and then edit .etc.yum.repos.d/ius.repo and use includepkgs= inside that to restrict which packages are selected. Then when IUS next update python for some hiseous security vulnerability, you will ne notified and offered the update next you yum update.