On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 9:33 PM, Robert Arkiletian <robark at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com> 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 > > This is a bad hack. Undo the damage. Then install the official CentOS > Software Collections repo. > > https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/ > > It has Python27. > > I just asked the list how to install Python3 on CentOS. After having > looked at the other options, SCL was IMHO, the easiest and best > solution. Red Hat/CentOS has really hit a home run with SCL. Thanks, this look promising. Does it have 2.7 versions of things like django, MySQLdb, mod_wsgi, and other popular packages?