However, by default, the system will give priority to Python3, and that’s when we run python command it will give an error: Command 'python' not found, did you mean:Ĭommand 'python' from deb python-is-python3

You will see both python 2.7 and 3 on your Ubuntu 20.04 Linux. See all available Python version on the systemĪs we know Ubuntu 20.04 comes out of the box with Python 3 thus, let’s check what are the available versions of Python are on our system.

To view the current version of Python on your system run: python2 -VĤ. Once done with the above command, its time to install Python 2.7 version on Ubuntu Linux, for that, follow this syntax: sudo apt install python2-minimal It is quite possible that your system would already have the Universe repository, still run the below command to add or confirm it. Open a command terminalĪlthough everybody is familiar with how to run the command terminal, however, those who don’t know can use the shortcut key combination i.e Ctrl+Alt+T.

Uninstall (optional) Install Python 2.7 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Linux and make it default 1.

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