installing python 2.7 on centos63

gistfile1.txt

#!/bin/sh

set -e
mkdir -p ~/opt
cd ~/opt

yum groupinstall -y "Development tools"
yum install -y zlib-devel bzip2-devel  openssl-devel  ncurses-devel

set -e
curl -O http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.3/Python-2.7.3.tar.bz2
tar xf Python-2.7.3.tar.bz2
cd Python-2.7.3
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make && make altinstall
ln -s /usr/local/bin/python2.7 /usr/local/bin/python

cd ~/opt
curl -O https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-2.0.tar.gz
tar -xzf setuptools-2.0.tar.gz
cd setuptools-2.0
python2.7 setup.py install

cd ~/opt
curl -O https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pip/pip-1.5.tar.gz
tar -xzf pip-1.5.tar.gz
cd pip-1.5
python2.7 setup.py install

cd ~/opt
curl -O https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/distribute-0.6.27.tar.gz
tar xf distribute-0.6.27.tar.gz
cd distribute-0.6.27
python2.7 setup.py install

cd ~/opt
git clone https://github.com/fireteam/virtualenv-tools.git
cd virtualenv-tools
python2.7 setup.py install

pip2.7 install --no-use-wheel virtualenv
pip2.7 install --no-use-wheel virtualenv-tools
pip2.7 install --no-use-wheel uwsgi

cd ~
rm -rf opt