usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin NOTE : Please check for root and user “which python” if root pointing to “/usr/local/bin/python” then remove the soft link or change default path for root user. You can create a symlink to the same directory by using below command ln -s /usr/local/bin/python2.7 /usr/local/bin/python You can also check installation path of python 2.7 if it s properly placed linuxtweaks ~]#which python2.7 If all above commands run successful then your python2.7 are installed on your server. Now we can start installation process as we already have all dependencies. yum install -y zlib-devel bzip2-devel openssl-devel xz-libs wget Install Python 2.7 from sourceįirst you need to download source file from python site and then extract it. Update server and install development toolsįirst of all you need to update your server to latest so that all packages will be latest and your repository also updated.Īfter that install development tools which require for python to be installed yum -y updateĪlso there is a need some more packages for python installation which will require the time of installation from source. So here we will install Python from source so we have to install their dependency packages as well. Below a simple tutorial to install python 2.7 on some other location and use both default and newly install python on server where default python will use for server and 2.7 will use for your application as well. We can install it via yum repository by adding other repo to server and update core python but overwriting existing python can be big clash of your server because python is used to compile source files and many packages depends on this so if core package updates it will affect your server. CentOS 6 come with Python 2.6 so when you upgrade to the latest (python 2.7) you will get 2.6 version but if you need python then you have to install it manually on some other location.

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