Uninstall Python 2.6, install Python 2.5

[zgras]

Hi, I am fairly new to Linux. I have OpenSuse Desktop 11.3. For a software package I need to install, I have to have Python 2.4 or 2.5 - it will not run with Python 2.6. I cannot find any way in Yast to install the older version of Python. So my question is this: How do I first uninstall Python 2.6 so I don't screw anything up, and then install Python 2.5? Is it as simple as using Yast for the uninstall, then finding the tarball for 2.5, unpacking it, ./configure, sudo make, sudo make install?
Thanks in advance for the help!

[Segfault]

You cannot downgrade Python, it will kill your Linux. Python is part of system. Are you sure your program won't work with 2.6?

[gogalthorp]

Check the version tab in Software Management see if the older version is still available there. If not then yes you would need uninstall from yast find the tar and compile from source. note there should be a read me in the tar that should give you the basic requirements. Also note it my require downgrading other libraries and this in turn could break things. Python is used in many many places in the OS downgrading could break a lot of things.

I'm running 11.2 and all the python packages are also 2.6 or higher

Are you sure that the package will not run with 2.6? Or is that just an arbitrary specification?

[coopstah13]

fyi, you can have multiple versions of python installed and running without interfering with each other, so i would just install python2.5 and not remove python2.6 because you will probably break something