Fabric is a great tool for helping deploy applications. It is written in Python and still in it’s early stages. The big issue is that fabric will not run on python v2.4. That is a problem since Redhat/CentOS v5 ships with v2.4 so we have to make it work.

So the first thing to do is install python 2.5. I found great rpms here. I am going to mirror the RPMS on my blog just in case. You also need to install tkinter25 which I provide for you also. These are only for 64bit. You can do some googling to find the 32 bit versions I am sure. You also need to install libtk and libTix.

Install some dependancies

yum install tk tix

Now lets install python and tkinter

mkdir python

cd python

wget http://zcentric.com/files/python25-2.5.1-bashton1.x86_64.rpm

wget http://zcentric.com/files/python25-devel-2.5.1-bashton1.x86_64.rpm

wget http://zcentric.com/files/python25-libs-2.5.1-bashton1.x86_64.rpm

wget http://zcentric.com/files/python25-test-2.5.1-bashton1.x86_64.rpm

wget http://zcentric.com/files/python25-tools-2.5.1-bashton1.x86_64.rpm

wget http://zcentric.com/files/tkinter25-2.5.1-bashton1.x86_64.rpm

rpm -ivh *.rpm

Remove all the python25 rpms

rm -rf *.rpm

Now you have v2.4 and v2.5 installed. Now lets download the needed fabric dependancies and fabric. I built these to run for python25

wget http://zcentric.com/files/fabric-0.9-0.1.b1.noarch.rpm

wget http://zcentric.com/files/python25-setuptools-0.6c5-2.noarch.rpm

wget http://zcentric.com/files/python25-paramiko-1.7.6-1.noarch.rpm

wget http://zcentric.com/files/python25-crypto-2.0-1.rf.x86_64.rpm

rpm -ivh *.rpm

vi /usr/bin/fab

#!/usr/bin/python

#!/usr/bin/python25