On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org> wrote: > > > On 04/27/2014 03:58 PM, Larry Martell wrote: >> I am running CentOS 6.5, which has python 2.6. I need python 2.7 so I >> installed that and it works and is my default python. But yum does not >> work with that, so I changed the shebang line for yum to >> /usr/bin/python2.6 and then yum works again. But when I install a >> python package with yum it get installed to >> /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/. How can I get yum to install to >> /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages? > > > You don't. That's determined by the package build, not anything to do > with the package installer tools (either rpm or yum). Some 3rd party > repositories like IUS or software collections have python27, and that's > the best way to install it. If you've built your python from source, > then you've circumvented the package manager and done "Bad Things". No I installed 2.7 from a repo that had it. So now I guess I have to find 2.7 repos for all the packages we use.