I think Python 2.4 was installed with the OS. I installed Python 2.7 from an .egg file that I downloaded. I'm a bit new to this terminology, so not sure if that considered Centos package management.
I think you're right about Python2.4 being set as the default. Does anyone know how to persuade it otherwise for installation purposes?
Okay, I'm sorry for the questions. But I'm really confused about where things are being installed. I know that yum installed it under 2.4 site-packages because I checked for it inside there before and after I ran the yum command.
There is an easy_install.pth file under /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site- packages/ as well, but would that be invoked when I call easy_install when I'm logged in as root?
As for 2.6, that would be fine, but I don't seem to have a /user/bin/python2.6 (whereas, I do have a /user/bin/python2.4). Maybe it's because I'm on CentOS5, which comes with 2.4.
I tried to use the rpm --prefix flag to move the rpm, but to no avail.
Well you said you have both Python 2.4 and 2.7 installed on the machine.
Were they both installed via Centos package management?
If so Python 2.4 is probably set as the default and if you install the package for Python it will install for 2.4. You probably need to specify the python version. Not sure how Centos names its packages, but I am using openSUSE and the default package(where the default Python is 2.7) is python-psycopg2 and the Python 3 version(which I also have installed) is python3-psycopg2
