I'm trying to install an up to date version of Node.js on my Centos5.2 server. As such I need to use an altinstall of python 2.7. I'm told that I need to create a symlink from the default version of python 2.4 to python 2.7 during the installation, and then delete the link afterward to go back to using 2.4.
Python is at /usr/bin/python
Python 2.7 is at /usr/local/bin/python2.7
To create the link I'm trying to use ln -s /usr/local/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/python, which returns ln: creating symbolic link "python" to "/usr/local/bin/python2.7": File exists. As far as I can tell, no link is actually being created. Python -V returns Python 2.4, and node still has problems installing.
Is there something that I'm doing incorrectly, and is this because the path of the symlink at /usr/bin/python already exists?
