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Quick build: clarify that you have to do "make install" as root; OS 

info: add info about Red Hat's python and python2.
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@ -41,9 +41,12 @@ If you don't read instructions
Congratulations on getting this far. :-)
To start building right away (on UNIX): type "./configure" in the
current directory and when it finishes, type "make". The section
`Build Instructions' below is still recommended reading, especially
the part on customizing Modules/Setup.
current directory and when it finishes, type "make". This creates an
executable "./python"; to install in /usr/local, first do "su root"
and then "make install".
The section `Build Instructions' below is still recommended reading,
especially the part on customizing Modules/Setup.
What is Python anyway?
@ -245,6 +248,13 @@ Linux: A problem with threads and fork() was tracked down to a bug in
Modules/Setup, or comment out the crypt module in the same
file. Most modern Linux systems use glibc2.
Red Hat Linux: There's an executable /usr/bin/python which is Python
1.5.2 on most Red Hat installations; several key Red Hat tools
require this version. Python 2.1.x may be installed as
/usr/bin/python2. The Makefile installs Python as
/usr/local/bin/python, which may or may not take precedence
over /usr/bin/python, depending on how you have set up $PATH.
FreeBSD 3.x and probably platforms with NCurses that use libmytinfo or
similar: When using cursesmodule, the linking is not done in
the correct order with the defaults. Remove "-ltermcap" from