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I was trying to install a separate version of python 2.7 (2,7.10) on my Ubuntu machine. The idea was to run them separately, but when I installed it from source, it became the default version. I assume because they are both releases of 2.7.

Now I have some issues with my python (see example below) - is there a way to safely remove this new version of python to revert back to the system install of 2.73?

Zanna
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FYI, I fixed this by running:

which -a python

This gave me 2 different python binaries:

/usr/local/bin/python
/usr/bin/python

where /usr/bin/python was the original.

Both of these paths were symlinks to python2.7 in the same directories, that is /usr/bin/python was a symlink to /usr/bin/python2.7 and so on.

I simply symlinked the /usr/local/bin/python to /usr/bin/python2.7 and the conflicts were resolved.

I am not sure if this is the best solution but it seems to work.

guntbert
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