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Asked: 2026-05-26T21:33:47+00:00

The default version of Python on Ubuntu 11.10 is 2.7, but I’m looking for

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The default version of Python on Ubuntu 11.10 is 2.7, but I’m looking for 2.6. How do I make it default and where is the executable located?

I type which python2.6 but it returns nothing, yet I did have a python2.6 folder under /usr/lib/python2.6. But it doesn’t look like the python2.7 which is at the same path /usr/lib/. Inside the python2.6, there are two folders: dist-packages and lib-dynload.

Actually I am configuring PyDev, and it requires me to specify where the python2.6 executable is. The python2.7 executable has been easily located by just using auto configuration as it is the default.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can install the package python2.6 (apt-get install python2.6). At this point, the default version of Python will still be 2.7. You can change this via

    ln -s /usr/bin/python2.6 /usr/bin/python

    Note that there’s a decent chance this could cause problems with your system. Several scripts assume the default version of Python is 2.7 and may break when run under a different version. If you have a script that explicitly requires Python 2.6, you can add a shebang at the beginning of your script to specify the version

    #!/usr/bin/python2.6
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