[CentOS] Getting yum to install to python 2.7 dir

Larry Martell larry.martell at gmail.com
Mon Apr 28 13:05:02 UTC 2014


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?



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