Larry Martell wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 4:32 PM, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 4:25 PM, Clint Dilks <clintd at scms.waikato.ac.nz> >> wrote: >>> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 10:09 AM, Larry Martell >>> <larry.martell at gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 8:22 AM, Pete Biggs <pete at biggs.org.uk> wrote: >>>> > On Tue, 2017-12-05 at 14:16 +0100, Kai Grunau wrote: >>>> >> On 05.12.2017 14:05, Larry Martell wrote: >>>> >> > I am running CentOS 7 and I have python version: >>>> >> > Python 2.7.5 (default, Sep 15 2016, 22:37:39) >>>> >> > I need a newer version of 2.7 to pick up a bug fix. How can I do >>>> >> that (without breaking anything in CentOS)? <snip> >>>> > Or use Software Collections, the Python27 package from there has >>>> > 2.7.13 >>>> > https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/python27/ >>>> > https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/SCL >>>> >>>> I followed the instructions at the first link and I still only seem to >>>> have 2.7.5. How can I specify a newer version? >> >>> Hi, perhaps reading https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/ and >>> https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/python27/ will help. >>> >>> Have you done scl enable python27 bash in your current shell? >> >> Thanks. Missed that. Now I do get 7.5.13 but it seems I have to type >> that command in each new shell. Can I make that the default python? I >> want django and uWSGI to use that version. <snip> I guess my very brief suggestion wasn't understood: in whatever shell script you use to start the tools you want to use, insert, at the top, right under the #!/bin/bash, the line . /opt/<path/to/python2.7>/enable so that the paths are set for that shell script, and all its children. This will not result in you going into python's command line, nor will it affect anything else, including yum. mark