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Old 01-17-2005, 10:17 PM   #1
PICOspark
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Question Installing Python 2.4??


Hi...

I am LINUX newbie. I am using Redhat 9. In RH9, python 2.2.2 is already exist. I wanna to update Python 2.4, So.. i download it and installed it. It's already OK. But... when i run form terminal It's run 2.2.2 version. When I go to the python-2.4 foulder, and run python in here... i got Python-2.4 version. I wanna to get... when i run from terminal I don't wanna 2.2.2 version I WANNA ONLY Python-2.4 version. How I do it?

With Many Thanks...
PICO

Last edited by PICOspark; 01-17-2005 at 10:19 PM.
 
Old 01-18-2005, 10:14 AM   #2
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Find /usr/bin/python. See if it's a symlink (ls -l /usr/bin/python). If it is, make it point to your new python 2.4 instead of your old python 2.2.2.

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