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server-administration:installing-iotop-centos5 [2011-04-28 18:39:59]
garrett.plasky [Pre-Requisites] 		server-administration:installing-iotop-centos5 [2011-04-28 18:43:43]
garrett.plasky [Installing & Configuring IOTop]
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 This program also requires a newer Python version than CentOS 5 supplies (2.6 vs 2.4), so we'll grab those from the EPEL repo and install them: This program also requires a newer Python version than CentOS 5 supplies (2.6 vs 2.4), so we'll grab those from the EPEL repo and install them:
  
-<sxh bash; autolinks: false>wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/python26-2.6.5-5.el5.i386.rpm \ +<sxh bash; auto-links: false>wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/python26-2.6.5-5.el5.i386.rpm \ 
 ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/python26-libs-2.6.5-5.el5.i386.rpm \  ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/python26-libs-2.6.5-5.el5.i386.rpm \ 
 ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/libffi-3.0.5-1.el5.i386.rpm ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/libffi-3.0.5-1.el5.i386.rpm
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 Let's install the RPM: Let's install the RPM:
  
-<sxh bash>rpm -ivh http://guichaz.free.fr/iotop/files/iotop-0.4.1-1.noarch.rpm</sxh>+<sxh bash; auto-links: false>rpm -ivh http://guichaz.free.fr/iotop/files/iotop-0.4.1-1.noarch.rpm</sxh>
  
 Now, CentOS will typically keep Python2.4 as your default Python, so we can tell IOTop to use Python 2.6 in two ways. One would be to relink the <c>/usr/local/bin/python</c> binary to <c>/usr/local/bin/python2.6</c>, or we can simply change the sha-bang at the beginning of the iotop script to use he 2.6 binary instead. We choose the latter so as to not break compatibility with Python2.4-exclusive scripts. Now, CentOS will typically keep Python2.4 as your default Python, so we can tell IOTop to use Python 2.6 in two ways. One would be to relink the <c>/usr/local/bin/python</c> binary to <c>/usr/local/bin/python2.6</c>, or we can simply change the sha-bang at the beginning of the iotop script to use he 2.6 binary instead. We choose the latter so as to not break compatibility with Python2.4-exclusive scripts.