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fairos17
October 11th, 2011, 09:23 AM
Hi everybody,
I'm fairly new in Ubuntu and even Linux. I've just installed Ubuntu 11.04 which comes with python 2.7. I then installed python 2.6 using the easy_install program. But when I type $ python in the terminal, it only detected python 2.7. How can I use python 2.6? Thanks:)

raja.genupula
October 11th, 2011, 10:23 AM
Hi everybody,
I'm fairly new in Ubuntu and even Linux. I've just installed Ubuntu 11.04 which comes with python 2.7. I then installed python 2.6 using the easy_install program. But when I type $ python in the terminal, it only detected python 2.7. How can I use python 2.6? Thanks:)

hi go with this

sudo /usr/bin/python2.6

fairos17
October 13th, 2011, 09:05 AM
ok thanks a lot

raja.genupula
October 13th, 2011, 04:25 PM
Glad that you have solved your issue.please mark your thread as solved from thread tools.