On 9/7/07, Bryan Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 9/6/07, Brandon Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > So, I have got quite a problem here...I don't know what is going on. I
> have
> > a machine running Ubuntu 7.04 for work. At work we have been using
> > python2.4for a bunch of stuff but now are moving things to
> > python2.5. Well, all the while to enable updates to work I have had to
> > switch the symbolic link to python from python2.4 to 2.5. Well, today I
> > switched the symbolic link to point to python2.5 and when I start python
> it
> > brings up python2.4....so I did an ls -l on the /usr/bin directory and
> > python was linked to python2.5. So I started python by just typing
> > python2.5....and it brought up python2.4.....python2.5 does not show a
> link
> > to anything, it is just a binary executable file....
>
> Type 'type python' and 'type python2.5' to see if they are aliased or
> something.
>
> Bryan


Some other queries that might provide some helpful insight:

# show which package the executable belongs to
dpkg -S /usr/bin/python
dpkg -S /usr/bin/python2.5
dpkg -S /usr/bin/python2.4

# list files belonging to package
dpkg -L <package>

Bryan (not a debian expert)
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