Dear Karl, Martin,
The easiest solution that might work, if the problem is the older OS with
python2.7, is to use the RHEL6 version that uses python 2.6, but then
change the name of the $FER_DIR/lib/python2.6 subdirectory
$FER_DIR/lib/python2.7. Run Finstall, specifying python2.7 as the python
executable and do some testing. I am not sure if this will work, but it is
simple to try.
I didn't quite follow along but I think this applies: I'm running an
older version of pyferret (6.8.2) on our redhat cluster with a custom
python-2.7.5 installation. I did have to manually build and install
some prerequisites (pyqt-related), but otherwise I managed to get
pyferret working with 2.7 by just renaming the lib/python-2.6
directory to lib/python-2.7.
I think there were a couple of other minor things to fix, but I don't
recall exactly unfortunately.
Kind regards,
Hein