I am on Ubuntu 11.04 and have Python 2.6 installed. I would like to upgrade to Python 2.7. How should I go about doing this?
If indeed you find you don't have python 2.7 its in the repositories
You may find, however, that instead of calling
You can overwrite this behavior by redirecting the 'python' link in your /usr/bin/ directory to the python2.7 executable. (This may cause problems if you're keeping legacy programs that are expecting 2.6 and are badly coded, however I very much doubt it.)