title: How to uninstall Python2.6
body: <p>On my Fedora11 machine which has python2.6 pre-installed on it, I was able to successfully install python 2.7 using the following steps:</p>
  
  <pre><code>wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7/Python-2.7.tar.bz2
  tar -xvjf Python-2.7.tar.bz2
  cd Python*
  ./configure --prefix=/opt/python27
  make
  make install
  vi ~/.bash_profile
  ## replaced PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
  ## with PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/opt/python27/bin
  
  ## reload .bash_profile
  source ~/.bash_profile
  echo "/opt/python27/lib" &gt; /etc/ld.so.conf.d/python27.conf
  ldconfig
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, when I checked the python version the system uses via terminal (python -V), it still shows python 2.6.</p>
  
  <p>How will I make the system use python2.7 as its default python?
  Or if possible, how will I uninstall python2.6?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance!</p>