The latest articles on DEV Community by Imran (@mkhan195). https://dev.to/mkhan195 https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F470830%2Fbd898a83-4d88-4a85-bf6e-795cfa151380.png https://dev.to/mkhan195 en Imran Tue, 22 Sep 2020 07:46:00 +0000 https://dev.to/mkhan195/python-lib-path-in-rhel-7-2hd4 https://dev.to/mkhan195/python-lib-path-in-rhel-7-2hd4 <p>I have a Virtual machine with RHEL 7. Where Python2.7 is installed (by default) comes with it. I have installed Python 3.6 installed separately like below.</p> <p>wget <a href="https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.6/Python-3.6.XX.tgz">https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.6/Python-3.6.XX.tgz</a> --no-check-certificate<br> tar -zvf Python-3.6.tgz<br> rm -rf Python-3.6.tgz<br> cd Python-3.6<br> ./configure --prefix=/opt/python3.6 --enable-shared<br> make<br> make altinstall</p> <p>Just ignore the path and all.</p> <p>Now when I am installing the django framework I am getting below error.<br> Exception:<br> Traceback (most recent call last):<br> File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main<br> status = self.run(options, args)<br> File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 365, in run<br> strip_file_prefix=options.strip_file_prefix,<br> File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 789, in install<br> **kwargs<br> File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 854, in install</p> <p>Its looking for Python site_packages in /usr/lib/python3.6 whereas it should look in /opt/python3.6/lib/python3.6/site_packages , any idea who to change that ?</p> python