Re: [CentOS] how to use python 2.7 by default instead python 2.6 on centos 6.8

On Mon, 4 Jul 2016, John Hodrien wrote:

On Mon, 4 Jul 2016, qw wrote:

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centos 6.8 comes with python 2.6. But I want to use python 2.7 to build gstreamer sdk. I have built python 2.7 and installed it into my custom directory. How to set centos to use python 2.7 by default instead of python 2.6?

Don't. If you try to swap out the standard python with another one, expect almost everything you hold dear to break.

John Hodrien's reply was done well.

Such replies are so rarely done well that I thought it worth noting. Often it's just "Don't", "Don't do that" or "Don't do that, it's stupid".