Redhat 7.3 skipjack Beta2- why still python 1.5x ?
Jeff Shannon
jeff at ccvcorp.com
Tue Apr 9 15:56:12 EDT 2002
In article <3CB277E2.8060505 at greenroom.com.au>,
matt at greenroom.com.au says...
> In addition to that (i promise i'll stop soon), it is a bit annoying
> that whenever i install red hat i have to
>
> rm -f /usr/bin/python
> ln -s /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/python
>
> because they believe that more of us will use 1.5 than 2.1.
No, they have no such belief. It is simply that their
administration tools use 1.5, and are broken under 2.x, and said
tools all look for /usr/bin/python. In other words, what you've
just done (relinking /usr/bin/python to python2) has broken many
of their admin tools.
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Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International
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