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Python Version

happy10319May 30 2018 — edited Jun 4 2018

Hi,

On Oracle Linux I had:

python -V

Python 2.6.6

I ran:

wget http://python.org/ftp/python/3.6.3/Python-3.6.3.tar.xz

tar xf Python-3.6.3.tar.xz

cd Python-3.6.3

./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-shared LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath /usr/local/lib"

make && make altinstall

And I see:

[root@rac1 ~]# ls /usr/local/lib

libpython3.6m.so  libpython3.6m.so.1.0  libpython3.so  pkgconfig  python3.6

[root@rac1 ~]#

But I have always:

python -V

Python 2.6.6

Any idea?

Thanks.
This post has been answered by Christopher Jones-Oracle on Jun 3 2018
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Andris Perkons-Oracle

What's the output of "type python"? Just because you place some software onto your system, does not mean that your system automatically finds it. You may have to modify your PATH or you may have to call your newly installed python with a fully qualified name (e.g. "/usr/local/bin/python -V").

Andris

happy10319

Thanks.

type python

python is /usr/bin/python

[root@rac1 ~]# python3 --version

Python 3.6.0

Seems OK.

Answer

For Python and cx_Oracle packages, check out this landing page https://yum.oracle.com/oracle-linux-python.html which shows how to install different versions of Python.

Marked as Answer by happy10319 · Sep 27 2020
happy10319

Thank you.

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