[CentOS] Getting yum to install to python 2.7 dir

[Robert Arkiletian]

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.