hi i was trying to install libvirt 0.5 on my centos 5 machine which by default have libvirt 0.4. But after installing from the source of libvirt, still the output of i get from python remains that of 0.4 >>>import libvirt >>> libvirt.getVersion() 4006 how could i install the new version... Do i need to give any option while configuring or making.

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 09:40:55AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 12:44:17AM -0500, ente linux wrote: > > hi > > > > i was trying to install libvirt 0.5 on my centos 5 machine which by default > > have libvirt 0.4. But after installing from the source of libvirt, still the > > output of i get from python remains that of 0.4 > > >>>import libvirt > > >>> libvirt.getVersion() > > 4006 > > > > how could i install the new version... Do i need to give any option while > > configuring or making. > > If installing manually, configure will default to putting it in /usr/local > unless you give a different --prefix option. > > Python only looks in /usr by default, so when installing custom builds > you'll need to set > > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib > export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages in general in an rpm based system it's best to upgrade at the rpm level in my opinion, that avoids a lot of troubles, and it's possible to go back without leftovers from previous attemps left and right... Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel(a)veillard.com | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/