[CentOS] Getting yum to install to python 2.7 dir

[James B. Byrne]

On Sun, April 27, 2014 23:33, Robert Arkiletian wrote:

> 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 followed the instruction on that link and discovered that one basically
needs to be a RedHat subscriber to get any use out of it. At least insofar as
httpd-2.4 is concerned.  I cannot speak what restrictions, if any, are placed
on the Python-2.7 package.


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