I'm wanting to use some newer software that requires Python 2.6
, and we currently have both 2.4
and 2.6
installed on our dedicated CentOS server, which looks like this:
$ which python
/usr/local/bin/python
$ which python2.6
/usr/bin/python2.6
$ which python2.4
/usr/local/bin/python2.4
$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/py*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 81 Aug 9 2007 /usr/local/bin/pydoc
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3394082 Aug 9 2007 /usr/local/bin/python
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3394082 Aug 9 2007 /usr/local/bin/python2.4
How can I switch it to start using 2.6
as the default python
?
As root:
ln -sf /usr/bin/python2.6 /usr/local/bin/python
This will make a symbolic link from /usr/local/bin/python --> /usr/bin/python2.6 (replacing the old hardlink).