Working with 2 pythons on same machine

Question

I installed Linux Mint as Virtual Machine. When I do:

python --version

I get:

Python 2.7.6

I installed seperate python folder acording to this. and When I do:

python2.7 --version

I get:

Python 2.7.11

Now, I want to work only on Python 2.7.11

I installed pip and installed a package using pip with pip install paypalrestsdk It was successfull:

However when I run the script using this package I get:

i suspect that pip and the install were done on the python 2.7.6 rather than the python 2.7.11 What can I do?

It's funny how your screenshots suggest you're reading [this page](https://github.com/pyca/pyopenssl/issues/117) — Dmitry Grigoryev, Mar 31 '16 at 11:42

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 31 '16 at 11:28

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Since you get the right Python version by running python2.7, you could use pip2.7 to install packages in it:

pip2.7 install paypalrestsdk

answered Mar 31 '16 at 11:28

Dmitry Grigoryev

If you don't have the symlink, you can always specify the full path: `/path/to/correct/version/pip install paypalrestsdk` – Dmitry Grigoryev Mar 31 '16 at 11:35
I think the pip itself is not installed in the new version. How do I install it there? – java Mar 31 '16 at 11:36

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 31 '16 at 11:37

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Use virtual environment http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/dev/virtualenvs/ to manage different versioned libraries. Install the wanted libraries in the environment created.

mkvirtualenv myenv --python=/usr/bin/python2.6 
workon myenv
pip install paypalrestsdk

answered Mar 31 '16 at 11:37

Rajesh Veeranki

You need to add virtualenvwrapper.sh to your path http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21928555/virtualenv-workon-command-not-found – Rajesh Veeranki Apr 03 '16 at 14:32

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 31 '16 at 11:46

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wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
python2.7 get-pip.py

Using this pip install:

pip install paypalrestsdk

Good luck!

answered Mar 31 '16 at 11:46

Snuggert

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