Are you on CentOS 6? You'll have to leave Python 2.6 installed as well, since yum on that version only works with 2.6. You just install python27 as an alternate and point your other software at the alt-install.
Greg On 10/8/15, 8:48 AM, "Shashank Prabhakara" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi all, > >I have a HDP installation managed by ambari and one of the software I need >use python 2.7 with these python packages - hdfs, avro, dataframe, >python-snappy among others. > >When I install python2.7 (compiled from code), pip and these packages, >ambari fails to start/restart components citing missing rpm package in >python. > >Anybody here can help with these issues - I want avoid setting up >python2.7 >for ambari separately since this is only installed on one node. > >Shashank
