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Asked: 2026-05-31T08:02:09+00:00

I am building an Arch Linux system from scratch, and presently there is no

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I am building an Arch Linux system from scratch, and presently there is no Python in the system. I could install Python2.7 by using this command:

pacman -S python2

But when I try to install some package for python like this:

pacman -S python-numpy

Pacman only shows option to download Python3.x and numpy for Python3.x. There is no other option available. How can I make sure that when I search for Python stuff, it only searches based on which Python version I have installed? There is no Python3 in my system and I have no need of it at all. In my Ubuntu system, I do not specify the Python version but it is always taken care of. I have no clue how to handle this in Arch Linux.

Thanks in advance!

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  1. Editorial Team

    In Arch Linux the default Python version is 3, so all python-* packages (including python itself) are for Python3. Fortunately Python2 is still fully supported, they are just prefixed with python2-* instead. So to install numpy you would do pacman -S python2-numpy.

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