# How to distribute python? Without affecting what is installed. **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [June 19, 2017, 7:55am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-distribute-python-without-affecting-what-is-installed/24758 "2017-06-19T07:55:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jrvilda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b38774/32.png) [@jrvilda](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jrvilda)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 7:55am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-distribute-python-without-affecting-what-is-installed/24758/1 "2017-06-19T07:55:58Z")
Hello everyone. First of all, excuseme my bad English. I need to install python 2.6 on the computers that are already in production, to be able to access from Ansible. There are some Solaris, Red-hat, Centos, etc, some with python 2.3 versions, in use. What approach do you recommend me to not interfere with the applications already installed? - Install python withthe raw module. - Install manually from code or packages. - Can I distribute a python folder (somehow)? - Suggestiones … ---
**Author:** ![John\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c5a1d2/32.png) [@John\_G](https://forum.ansible.com/u/John_G)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 9:45pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-distribute-python-without-affecting-what-is-installed/24758/2 "2017-06-21T21:45:29Z")
Look at this site for Solaris. It installed python 2.6 and dependences to /opt/csw/. [https://www.opencsw.org/manual/for-administrators/index.html](https://www.opencsw.org/manual/for-administrators/index.html) For CentOS 5 we are looking at python26 from EPEL repository. [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL) [https://fedoramagazine.org/the-end-of-the-line-for-epel-5/](https://fedoramagazine.org/the-end-of-the-line-for-epel-5/)