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sp0nge
January 12th, 2009, 01:39 AM
I just downloaded python3.0 via apt, but I'm not sure I understand how to uninstall (and preferably remove) the previous version(s). For some reason, there seems to be versions 2.4, 2.5 which is active, and the newly installed 3.0.

Please help me understand the most efficient way to clean this up.

Tim Sharitt
January 12th, 2009, 05:38 AM
You probably don't want ot remove the active yersion of python as python 3.0 isn't completly backwards compatable with the previous version. It is very likely that there are several applications which depend on python 2.5. Python 2.4 might be safe to remove via your prefered package manager, but there may still be applications which depend on it as well.

sp0nge
January 12th, 2009, 04:23 PM
Good advice, something I didn't even think about.