[Slackbuilds-users] Utility to identify required python version?

Benjamin Trigona-Harany slackbuilds at jaxartes.net
Wed Aug 14 22:50:48 UTC 2019


On 2019-08-14 3:37 p.m., Rich Shepard wrote:
> I think that GRASS gis was the last application installed here that used
> python2. Now that it requires python3 I would like to determine if there's
> any reason to also have python2 installed.
> 
> I assume that a python2 prerequisite would apply to only SBo packages. Is
> there a sbopkg option to do this? The -g option finds packages with the
> argument in its name, not as a requirement.
> 
> When I run 'hoorex python2' or 'hoorex python' nothing is returned.

Python 2 (Slackware package "python") is a system package so you will 
not see it referenced as a SlackBuild requirement and it's definitely 
inadvisable to uninstall it.




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