[CentOS] Getting yum to install to python 2.7 dir

[John R Pierce]

On 4/27/2014 6:42 PM, Larry Martell wrote:
> 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.

no repo intended for CentOS6/RHEL6 should have replaced /usr/bin/python 
with a newer version.  there's no way to do that without breaking ALL 
the python software included with centos6

putting it somewhere like /opt/python27 or /usr/local/python27, sure.


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