Uninstall python 2.6 without yum

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I accidentally downloaded python2.6.6 on my centos Virtual Machine from python.org's official download package and compiled it to source.

Now in my /usr/local/bin I have a python2.6 shell available and now if I use which python it will give me the path of /usr/local/bin instead of original python2.7's path which is /usr/bin.

Since I installed it from source, yum doesn't recognise python2.6.6 as a package and I want to get rid of it.

If I do rpm -q python it gives me a result of python-2.7.5-48.0.1.el7.x86_64

Is it possible to uninstall python2.6.6 and I will just re-point my python system variable to /usr/bin again?

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Accidentaly downloaded and compiled sounds strange hehe, one question, did you installed a rpm right? - Kalamarico
Did you checked if the compilation allows a 'make unistall'? as you did a make install - Kalamarico
yes I did not "accidentaly" downloaded and compiled the package, I have a old Django project that depends on python2.6.6 but centos 7 depends on python2.7 now, so my new working environment does not have python2.6 installed, also yum does not have python2.6 on its repository, that's why I compiled it from source. - paradox
Ok, so, take a look to this post hope will be helpful: stackoverflow.com/questions/31235059/… - Kalamarico
once I have downloaded the Python-2.6.6.tgz and unzipped it, I am able to run python2.6.6 from the unzipped file, does that mean I don't actually have to do the ./configure.py and make build process to compile it to source code? I do have a virtualenv environment available, should I just configure virtualenv to use uncompiled version of the python2.6.6? - paradox

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Sure, but you'll have to do it the hard way. Dig through /usr/local looking for anything Python-related and remove it. The python in /usr/bin should be revealed once the one in /usr/local/bin is removed.

Also, next time make altinstall. It will install a versioned executable that won't get in the way of the native executable.