Hello, In the Message; Subject : python executable name Message-ID : <CANkOqwOpzWekFKOPFREGAuccztR4AtVh5DAYb1J=UmgAZyMgJg@mail.gmail.com> Date & Time: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 11:22:35 +0200 [RO] == Roger Oberholtzer <roger.oberholtzer@gmail.com> has written: RO> I see that on a newly installed Tumbleweed, only Python 3.10 is RO> installed. No problem with that. RO> However, there is no executable called 'python'. Only 'python3' and RO> 'python3.10'. RO> Is this a general thing? That perhaps 'python' always references RO> Python 2? RO> Would something break if I made a 'python' link to 'python3'? No, it doen't. As far as I know, the building condition /usr/bin/python -> python3.10 is required only for fetchmail. Moreover, this requirement is only for the build process, and has nothing to do with the operation of the system. So, please just do # ln -s /usr/bin/python3.10 /usr/bin/python RO> Obviously, the code called would need to expect it. And I can make RO> sure that's the case for our code. But generally in Tumbleweed/Leap RO> would this confuse something? For builds, it was only occasionally /usr/bin/python -> python2.7 was required, but if the Tumbleweed package is as you say, it may be fine to leave it as it is. Looking at the package at hand, there are certainly no packages that require python 2.7 in the present Tumbleweed. If you are not building any software, I don't think you need to do anything. I'll just remove a bunch of python2.7 related packages and see what happens. Anyway, when I installed Tumbleweed this past March, it was a combination of python 2.7 and python 3.8, but now it is python 2.7 and python 3.10. When I figured this out, I have removed everything related to python 3.8 accordingly. I think you should carefully watch the status of package's updates in this regard. Regards. --- ┏━━┓彡 Masaru Nomiya mail-to: nomiya @ galaxy.dti.ne.jp ┃＼／彡 ┗━━┛ "A bachelor’s degree still holds prestige as a ticket to the middle class, but its value has received increasing scrutiny. In the last several years, rising tuition and student loan debt have led more Americans to reconsider an investment in postsecondary education." -- Washington Post --