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

Michael Torrie torriem at gmail.com
Fri May 31 11:55:03 EDT 2013


On 05/31/2013 09:20 AM, Νικόλαος Κούρας wrote:
> Why so many pythons in my system. Now in the case of my Python3
> installation, it looks like i have two parallel installations of
> Python3, but i don't. One is almost certainly a symlink to the other
> and not an actual installation.

Well is it a symlink?

> I'm thinking of:
> 
> yum remove python
> yum remove python3
> yum remove python3.3

What a fantastic way to completely break your os!  Python 2 is is a deep
dependency of CentOS.  You cannot remove it.  Python3 and 3.3 can be
removed of course.



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