How to install some software that requires Python 2.6 and rejects 2.7?

[Richard Shaw]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:
> of which http://mcepl.fedorapeople.org/rpms/ maintains Fedora RPMs for here
> http://mcepl.fedorapeople.org/rpms/scribes-0.4-0.bzr20111117r1032.1.el6.noarch.rpm

You're trying to install the el6 package which must ship with Python
2.6. Easiest solution is to download the source RPM instead and
rebuild it on your system:

http://mcepl.fedorapeople.org/rpms/scribes-0.4-0.bzr20111117r1032.1.el6.src.rpm

I took a look at the spec file for it and I didn't see anything
obvious that would make it fail on f17 but autoreconf is complaining.
I'm not much of an autoconf guru but I'll see if it's something easy.

On a side note it looks like scribes was added to Fedora some time ago
but I can't find it now so I assumed it was retired.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=189727

Richard