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

[Alister]

On Fri, 31 May 2013 08:20:54 -0700, Νικόλαος Κούρας wrote:

> I'am using CentOS v6.4 on my VPS and hence 'yum' install manager and i
> just tried:
> 
> Code:
> root at nikos [~]# which python /usr/bin/python root at nikos [~]# which
> python3 /root/.local/lib/python2.7/bin/python3 root at nikos [~]# which
> python3.3 /root/.local/lib/python2.7/bin/python3.3 root at nikos [~]#
> 
> 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.
> 
> I'm thinking of:
> 
> yum remove python yum remove python3 yum remove python3.3
> 
> and
> 
> yum install python3.3.2 from scratch.
> 
> I'm sceptic about uninstalling python 2.x though. Seems to me as a bad
> idea because most of the core system utilities are written in Python
> 2.6+. Yum, for example, is a collection of Python 2.6 programs. If i
> actually do "yum remove python" i will see most of my core system get
> listed in the uninstall dependency list -- which is a Bad Thing.
> 
> But then again i dont like the idea of having too many Python into my
> system.
> What is you opinion?

Do not "Yum Remove Python" as you suggest this will remove vital system 
tools.

I have both Python 2.7 & python3 (Python 3.3) on my Fedora system with no 
problems so i would not worry 



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