hi

thanks Berrange ...
after installing python development packages and setting the variables i am able to work out the trouble.

@Veillard
unfortunately i required some latest version,which is not provided yet as rpm, api for my needs,  and hence started from source.

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> wrote:
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

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