wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6/Python-2.6.tgz tar zxvf Python-2.6.tgz cd Python-2.6 ./configure --enable-ipv6 --prefix=/opt make make install mv /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python.bak ln -s /opt/bin/python2.6 /usr/bin/python