Re: Too many python installations. Should i remove them all and install the latest?

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Subject	Re: Too many python installations. Should i remove them all and install the latest?
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On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 8:50 AM, David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/06/2013, Νικόλαος Κούρας <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> root@nikos [/]# ls -l /usr/bin/python*
>> -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4864 Feb 22 02:00 /usr/bin/python*
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    6 Apr  5 20:34 /usr/bin/python2 -> python*
>> -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4864 Feb 22 02:00 /usr/bin/python2.6*
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1418 Feb 22 02:00 /usr/bin/python2.6-config*
> [... python3 line removed for clarity ...]
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   16 Apr  5 20:35 /usr/bin/python-config ->
>> python2.6-config*
>
> Apart from the bizarre trailing '*' characters which for which I have
> no sane explanation...

I believe that indicates that his 'ls' is aliased to 'ls --classify',
which puts * after executables (and / after directories, and @ after
symlinks, also a few others). Not a problem.

ChrisA

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