Re: [IBMiOSS] Python, ACS, Open Source and MKDocs

[Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

python 3 is called python3 ...
you create a virt env with
python3 -m venv /some/path/to myvenv
. /some/path/to myvenv/bin/activate
then you're in a virt env where python is a link to python3

On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 12:51 PM Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> So I'm beginning down the road of installing the MKDocs package that
> Richard mentioned a few weeks ago.  I managed to stumble my way through
> getting the latest version of IBM i ACS (not happy with that process at
> all, but I digress).  I started the SSHD server, and ACS magically
> downloaded and installed a bunch of open source goodies.  But I see
> Python 2, not Python 3.    So I went to the Available packages and I saw
> python3, as well as a whole suite of what I can only assume are
> python3-related packages.  I wanted to start with the minimum, so I
> asked it to install python3. Everything went smoothly (I don't like that
> I seem to have to X out of the installation progress window, but that's
> a nitpick). The package is installed.  However, when I run python
> --version, I still see Python 2.7.16.
>
> So what does that tell me?  Is there additional configuration required,
> or should I just continue on with my journey?  I'm just concerned that I
> need other things for MKDocs to run, but I also don't want to download
> the entire 500GB of additional python3 stuff if I've already hosed
> things up.
>
> Any guidance would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
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