Too many python installations. Should i remove them all and install the latest?

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sat Jun 1 02:18:26 EDT 2013


On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Νικόλαος Κούρας <nikos.gr33k at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can you please tell me HOW TO GET RID OF ALL PYTHON SETUPS except 2.6 that is needed for system core and then just install 3.3.2?

Nuke the hard drive from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

> also why cant i install 3.3.2  using yum. if i could instead of building from source then i wouldn't have this installed mess but i could simply
> yum remove python*

That would require that the repo have a 3.3.2 build in it. I don't
know the Red Hat / CentOS policies there, but I know Debian stable
wouldn't have anything so new - it takes time to test things.

ChrisA



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