[CentOS] Getting yum to install to python 2.7 dir

[Larry Martell]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org> wrote:
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> 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?
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> 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.