I have a Centos 6 based VPS with an ssh connection. Recently wanting to install python 2.7.2, I bravely ran:
yum remove python
which apparently removed yum itself being written or depends on python.
Now I don't know what to do and to make matters worse, I am a complete Linux newbie (command line or otherwise).
Running rpm -iv http://centos.mirrors.hoobly.com/6.0/os/x86_64/Packages/python-2.6.5-3.el6.x86_64.rpm
gives:
Retrieving http://centos.mirrors.hoobly.com/6.0/os/x86_64/Packages/python-2.6.5-3.el6.x86_64.rpm
Preparing packages for installation...
package python-2.6.5-3.el6.x86_64 is already installed
and its a x86_64 server no question about it as "uname -a" gives:
Linux xxxxxx 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jun 27 19:49:27 BST 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
One more thing: ls /usr/bin/pyth* -la
gives:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Dec 4 20:31 python2 -> python
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4864 Nov 12 2010 python2.6
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4864 Nov 12 2010 python;4edbd894
Best Answer
Pick a mirror from the list of CentOS 6 mirrors and install the packages you need using
rpm
. You would need to deal with dependencies. Lucky for you, I have a pretty bare VM with CentOS 6 x86_64 installed.I snapshot the VM, ran
yum remove python
and had some fun getting through some circular dependencies. Final result:Replace the mirror which whatever one you want. Also, make sure the architecture matches. That should do the trick though!
Oh one more thing: If I were you, I'd run a
yum upgrade
right after you're done installing the RPMs.