Is there a way to unstall Python 2.7?

[dkjMusic]

I installed 2.7 yesterday and am having problems with screenlets not running, etc.

Does anyone know a way of uninstalling 2.7 such that the system falls back to 2.6?

[Melon Bread]

*Bump* I would like to know as well

[papibe]

How did you install 2.7 ?

[Yarui]

How did you install 2.7 ?

Good point. My system seems to be running 2.6 by default. Did you install 2.7 on your own? If not you could already be running 2.6.

(I'm not trying to suggest you aren't smart enough to know which version you are running. Everyone makes mistakes and it can be helpful to ask these questions sooner rather than later.)

If you are, indeed, running 2.7 there seem to be entries for both 2.7 and 2.6 in the ubuntu software center. Rolling back to 2.6 would probably be as simple as opening up the software center, uninstalling 2.7 and installing 2.6.

[dkjMusic]

I installed 2.7 on my own.

[papibe]

I installed 2.7 on my own.

I'm afraid we need more information to offer some advice. We need to know the method you used to install it. For example:

• from a ppa, which one?
• from a .deb package, if so where did you get it?
• compiled from source, where did you get it?
• following instructions from a tutorial, which one?

Regards.

[Melon Bread]

(Running 10.10 x64)
I would guess from source from the python homepage, at least thats how I did it.
http://www.python.org/download/

I used this one:
http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7/Python-2.7.tar.bz2

Just did a basic

./configure
sudo make
sudo make install

Note Python 2.6.5 is still installed yet nothing works (it seems like its trying to use 2.7)


It sounds like the OP is in the same boat as myself

[papibe]

I have downloaded the package, read the docs, and went to the python wiki site. It does not look promising. It seems there's no actual uninstall process/tool yet (but it's in the making: read here).

Also I've learned that several versions can coexist together. You just need to point to the one you want to use. In my case:

$ ls -l /usr/bin/python*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 2010-06-27 12:56 /usr/bin/python -> python2.6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 2010-06-27 12:56 /usr/bin/python2 -> python2.6
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2288240 2010-04-16 09:06 /usr/bin/python2.6

The actual "python" command is a symbolic link to python2.6. Check how python is set in your system. If you are in a similar situation in which python is just a link, then you could do this:

$ sudo rm /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python2
$ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python2.6 /usr/bin/python
$ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python2.6 /usr/bin/python2

This way any reference to "python" will go the 2.6 version.

Good Luck!

[Melon Bread]

@papibe: Thank you, I went ahead and got help on IRC, but your way works just as well. Thanks for posting the solution

[papibe]

You're very welcome. If you finally learned how to uninstall it, or got a better method that the link trick, please post it here. That way, other users read benefit from it.

Regards.