To further explain my terse post from before (from my phone), see below. On 11/26/2014 10:09 AM, billyfurl...@gmail.com wrote: > Now the installation worked fine but shouldn't I see that it's using the > correct version??? > > I also did try to run /opt/python2.7/bin/python2.7 and it give me this. > > [root@wmy machine bin]# python2.7 > python2.7: error while loading shared libraries: libpython2.7.so.1.0: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory > > Please help the newb. He's frustrated.
So the longer answer is that only certain directories are searched by Linux for shared libraries. Python happens to provide a shared library, which it depends on, which is installed by the source tarball in /opt along with the binaries. There are a number of ways you can solve this: - Create a file in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/python2.7.conf and place in it the following path: /opt/python2.7/lib - before running /opt/python2.7/bin/python2.7, set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable (example in bash): $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/python2.7/lib /opt/python2.7/bin/python2.7 - create a wrapper script in /usr/bin that sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH and execs python2.7 I recommend the first as a permanent solution. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
