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S. Hokyung
S. Hokyung

Reputation: 1

Downloading Qiime to CentOS6.4. Having problems with python version

I'm trying to download Qiime to CentOS 6.4. and having troubles with the version of python. I have not much experience dealing with Linux system.

I've already downloaded python 2.6.6 in /usr/bin/python and I think this is the default version of python when I checked.

I tried to download python 2.7.6 since program Qiime can only be downloaded with python 2.7 to 3.3. I downloaded python 2.7.6 to /usr/local/bin/python2.7

I wanted to use python 2.7.6, so I tried alias python=/usr/local/bi/python2.7

However, when I tried to download Qiime with "pip install qiime" commend, it generates this error: The required version of distribute (>=0.6.28) is not available, and can't be installed while this script is running. Please install a more recent version first, using 'easy_install -U distribute'.

(Currently using distribute 0.6.10 (/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages))

Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 2 in /tmp/pip-build-onqyfu/matplotlib

Is it because the default version of python is still 2.6? What should I do to fix this error?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 90

Answers (1)

Emma Dietrich
Emma Dietrich

Reputation: 11

I'm new to Linux, too, but was experiencing a similar problem recently.

Perhaps your PATH and/or PYTHONPATH is still pointing to the older version of python. You can check this by using the commands:

echo $PATH
echo $PYTHONPATH

If it is indeed pointing to the wrong place, you can reset these to wherever you want them to go...

I think for you this would look like the following, but double check that this is where your new version of python is installed. 

export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib:$PYTHONPATH

Upvotes: 1

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