On 2020 Jul 20, at 15:25, David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> wrote:
Lately I have been working on a CentOS 8 machine, and it has "python2" and "python3", but no "python". Many packages install scripts with a shebang like:
#!/usr/bin/env python
and those do not work on this OS. Seems like rather a large missing dependency which goes by without triggering a fatal error.
How exactly are these packages getting installed? Last time I checked, both pip and setuptools automatically set the shebang in scripts (both console_script entry points and scripts declared with the "scripts" argument to `setup()`) to use the path of the running Python interpreter. Are these packages installed using your system package manager? If so, you should take the problem up with its maintainers. -- John Wodder