On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 8:19 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > 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. It did not install to /usr/bin/python - I never said that it did. It installed to /usr/local/bin/python2.7. I then linked /usr/local/bin/python2.7 to /usr/bin/python so 2.7 would be picked up as the default.