On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 06:04:43PM -0400, Giles Orr via talk wrote: > That actually makes sense. Then the next one can be 'python4' without > causing problems. But many distros - and many system administrators > will probably just make it 'python'. <sigh> > > Yup. Here's Fedora 35: > > $ which python > /usr/bin/python > $ python --version > Python 3.10.4 > > Debian is guilty of the same thing - which is interesting, because > Ubuntu is based on Debian and would have had to take a detour to "do > the right thing."
This is Debian: lsorense@W530:~$ python --version -bash: python: command not found lsorense@W530:~$ python3 --version Python 3.9.2 lsorense@W530:~$ > Debian and Fedora both also have /usr/bin/python3. Debian has that, but not /usr/bin/python unless the user changed it. Both Debian an Ubuntu have a package you can install named: python-is-python3 which installs a symlink. There is also a python-is-python2 package. -- Len Sorensen --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
