On Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 8:54:35 PM UTC-7, Bo Stone wrote: > I installed Python 2.7 on SLES 11 box that previously was running Python 2.6. > To do so I used a script described in this post > (http://stackoverflow.com/a/11371726/135946) and run it as a root user. > Everything went well but when it was done I discovered few issues: > > 1. No symbolic links were created and no path updated so I had to manually > update the path to link to the new installation bin directory > /opt/python2.7/bin > 2. Everything runs good until I switch from root to the normal user at which > point Python shell runs but some modules I installed such as PyYAML are > missing. Again, these are OK when I run Python as root > 3. As a regular user I'm not able to run pip, easy_install and wheel. For pip > I get "ImportError: No module named pkg_resources" > > This question is also posted to Stackoverflow here: > http://stackoverflow.com/q/38749809/135946
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