How to Install python 2.7 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Python 2.7 is not available in the Red Hat repository on RHEL 5, and the Python installation activities are different in RHEL 5. We can install it from the Python source code. https://access.redhat.com/solutions/255073 Step 1: We need to download the Python source code from the www.python.org # cd /usr/src
# wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.6/Python-2.7.6.tgz --no-check-certificate Note: if there is no internet connectivity in the target system, You can download it