Remove Python 2.5 on Fedora

Question

I followed this tutorial http://paltman.com/2007/nov/15/getting-ssl-support-in-python-251/ and installed python 2.5. Now when I enter the python terminal it reads python 2.5 and not 2.6.

How do I remove python 2.5? So it reverts back to 2.6?

Python was 2.5 was installed by:

./configure
make
make install

It was installed on Fedora, I was told changing the Pythonpath would help but I don't know how to do it or what Path to put in?

Answer 1

The python you installed manually ended up under /usr/local, which is the directory for manually installed programs. Since /usr/local/bin is usually in the program search path before /usr/bin (which is where most distribution-provided executables are), when you run python, it runs /usr/local/bin/python.

To remove your manually installed python, remove at least /usr/local/bin/python (or rename it to python2.5, if it's not already a symbolic link to python2.5). If you're not using the 2.5 installation at all, remove all of its bits under /usr/local: /usr/local/lib/python2.5, and probably others such as /usr/local/man/man1/python*.