centos - install python 2.7.8 on cento 6.5

install.sh

cd /tmp
sudo yum install -y openssl-devel zlib-devel bzip2-devel wget

VERSION=2.7.8

wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${VERSION}/Python-${VERSION}.tgz
tar -xvzf Python-${VERSION}.tgz

cd Python-${VERSION}

# ./configure \
#    --prefix=/usr/local \
#    --enable-unicode=ucs4 \
#    --enable-shared \
#    LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -Wl,-rpath /usr/local/lib -L/lib64 -L/usr/lib64"

# --enable-shared does not seem to work properly with LDFLAGS/python2.7.8
./configure \
    --prefix=/usr/local \
    --enable-unicode=ucs4 \
    LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -Wl,-rpath /usr/local/lib -L/lib64 -L/usr/lib64"

make
sudo make altinstall
cd ..

# install setuptools, pip and virtualenv
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py -O ez_setup.py
sudo /usr/local/bin/python2.7 ez_setup.py
sudo easy_install-2.7 pip
sudo pip2.7 install virtualenv