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I am completely new to Linux and Ubuntu(17.10). I just did a fresh install, and I have administrator rights. I downloaded and extracted Python 3.6.3 to my home directory, and not in the usr/bin where I want it located. Trying to extract to usr/bin got me a warning about not having required permissions?

I am trying to get the Katoolin script to work, which looks for Python in usr/bin/python, which obviously does not exist.

Can someone please explain how to either move the Python-3.6.3 directory/folder over to my usr/bin directory or what I can do correct this problem?

Darkk Matter
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All you need to do is link python to whatever edition you want to use as default.

You can check if you have python2 and python3 by using:

which python2
which python3

Most probably they will already be in your /usr/bin/. You can check where the link lead to by using:

ls -l /usr/bin/python3

To link one of them as default use:

ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python

You can now call python --version to check exact version. You can now also use #!/usr/bin/python in your Python scripts.

Nux
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