How to install a module for python 2.6 on CentOS?

Question

After I install python 2.6 on CentOS by:

 wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
 sudo rpm -ivh epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
 yum install python26

Then I install pyPdf by:

 yum install pyPdf

However, the pyPdf is only available to the old python 2.4:

# python
Python 2.4.3 (#1, Jan  9 2013, 06:49:54) 
[GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-54)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pyPdf
>>> import sys
>>> print sys.path
['', '/usr/lib/python24.zip', '/usr/lib/python2.4', '/usr/lib/python2.4/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Numeric', '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0']

it's not available to the newly install python 2.6:

# python26
Python 2.6.8 (unknown, Nov  7 2012, 14:47:34) 
[GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-52)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> print sys.path
['', '/usr/lib/python26.zip', '/usr/lib/python2.6', '/usr/lib/python2.6/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-old', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages']
>>> import pyPdf
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named pyPdf

How can I install pyPdf for python 2.6?

Answer 1

How about creating a virtualenv and install pyPdf with pip

$ curl -O https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/v/virtualenv/virtualenv-X.X.tar.gz
$ tar xvfz virtualenv-X.X.tar.gz
$ cd virtualenv-X.X
$ python26 virtualenv.py myVirtualenv
$ source myVirtualenv/bin/activate
$ pip install pyPdf

Read more about virtualenv here