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I am working with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on EC2. I want to change the default python interpreter from python 2.7 to 3.4.0 which is installed by default. When I do: /home/ubuntu$ which python /usr/bin/...

I have python 2.7 and 3.4 versions installed. But when I say say "python -V", it shows version as 2.7 not 3.4 How to tell ubuntu to use newest python? where is this setting configured ?

i want to port Python Scripts to python 3. How can i force Ubuntu to use python 3 instead of python 2 which is installed, as well. Due to the size of the project, i'd prefer not to write something ...

I am using Visual Studio Code for my Python programming and the problem that I am facing is that on terminal when I type the command python, by default Python 2.7 is loaded. So because of this I am ...

Using Ubuntu 16.04, I have a problem with python3 $ python --version Python 2.7.12 $ sudo apt-get install python3 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state ...

How do I install packages such as python3, and use them under a different name like python?

I've just now installed Python 3.7 and I'd like to understand why I get the following output from bash: g-luca@hp-notebook:~$ python3.7 -V Python 3.7.0 g-luca@hp-notebook:~$ python3 -V Python 3.5.2 g-...

I would like to use python3 as my default python when working with the terminal. If I added the line alias python=python3 in my ~/.bashrc, could that cause problems with other programs?

I have installed python3.6.1 I want to make it the default for the system when python is called. I also want IDLE to open to that version. After installing python3.6.1: Requirement already up-to-...

I've tried the normal way, sudo apt-get install python3.6, but... well... that didn't work. So, how would I go about it? (I'd preferably not build it on my own) I'm using Ubuntu 16.04.

So I have installed gcc-4.4 and gcc-4.3 (same for g++). Now as far as I remember there is a tool in Ubuntu which sets the symlinks for you if you just tell it which version you want. However it does ...

I have Anaconda installed in my system with Python 3.5. When I run: $ which python in the terminal, it correctly shows the intended one i.e. the one within Anaconda. When typed: $ python --...

I am new to ubuntu and I wanted to shift my version to Python 3.4.1. So I ran the command: $ sudo update-alternatives --config python update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for python But then ...

After installed python 3.6 from the the edwinksl's answer (How do I install Python 3.6 using apt-get?), I tried to test out the version of python on my computer with pip --version where I got the ...

Okay, so I have python 3.5 on my system. Whenever I open a .py file, Idle3 starts, thus pressing F5 will instantly run my code. However I need python 2.7 now for an assignment. In terminal I've ...