Question from the installation guide

[Michel Klijmij-van der Laan]

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Op vr, 21-04-2006 te 19:34 +0100, schreef Baz:
> On 4/21/06, Shervin Asgari <shervin at linpro.no> wrote:
> > shervin at cash:~/var/planet-nightly$ echo $PATH
> > /opt/j2se/bin/:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/opt/tomcat-5.5.16/bin/:/usr/lib/python2.4
> >
> > Python is in PATH
> >
> > shervin at cash:/usr/lib/python2.4$ python
> [snip]
> > I don't know if it is correct to put PYTHON in the PATH like that,
> > because normally you put in bin or something, but I couldn't find bin
> > anywhere, and python was inside /usr/lib/python2.4/ , so I don't know.
> 
> (please keep replies on the list)
> No, that's definitely not normal. I don't use Ubuntu, but what I'd
> *expect* to see would be a symlink from /usr/bin/python to the real
> executables (in /usr/lib/python2.4 etc).

I use Ubuntu, and:
michel at hex:~$ ls -l `which python`
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 9 2005-12-08 20:13 /usr/bin/python -> python2.4

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Kind regards,

Michel Klijmij