Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 6.5 (Santiago) comes with python 2.6 and if you want to install 2.7 you will discover you do not have it on repository.
All you have to do is:
1. Add python 2.7 repository:
sudo sh -c 'wget -qO- http://people.redhat.com/bkabrda/scl_python27.repo >> /etc/yum.repos.d/scl.repo'
2. Install python 2.7:
[root@florian src]# yum install python27
The following packages will be installed:
================================================================================================================================================================================================================================== Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================================================================================================================================================================== Installing: python27 x86_64 1.1-15.el6 scl_python27 3.6 k Installing for dependencies: python27-python x86_64 2.7.5-10.el6 scl_python27 79 k python27-python-babel noarch 0.9.6-7.el6 scl_python27 1.4 M python27-python-devel x86_64 2.7.5-10.el6 scl_python27 385 k python27-python-docutils noarch 0.11-1.el6 scl_python27 1.6 M python27-python-jinja2 noarch 2.6-9.el6 scl_python27 548 k python27-python-libs x86_64 2.7.5-10.el6 scl_python27 5.5 M python27-python-markupsafe x86_64 0.11-11.el6 scl_python27 24 k python27-python-nose noarch 1.3.0-1.el6 scl_python27 289 k python27-python-pygments noarch 1.5-2.el6 scl_python27 800 k python27-python-setuptools noarch 0.9.8-1.el6 scl_python27 422 k python27-python-simplejson x86_64 3.2.0-1.el6 scl_python27 173 k python27-python-sphinx noarch 1.1.3-7.el6 scl_python27 1.1 M python27-python-sqlalchemy x86_64 0.7.9-3.el6 scl_python27 2.1 M python27-python-virtualenv noarch 1.10.1-2.el6 scl_python27 1.4 M python27-python-werkzeug noarch 0.8.3-5.el6 scl_python27 555 k python27-runtime x86_64 1.1-15.el6 scl_python27 1.0 M Transaction Summary ================================================================================================================================================================================================================================== Install 17 Package(s)
3. Enable python 2.7 as default:
[root@florian src]# python -V Python 2.6.6 [root@florian src]# scl -l python27 [root@florian src]# scl enable python27 bash [root@florian src]# python -V Python 2.7.5
