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    Safe removal of older Python versions

    Greetings ALL,
    We have Python 2.5 that we are using to learn Python as well as 2.4 and 2.3 we installed for another project.
    When we built 2.3 we just let it go "Default" and it built into /usr/local/bin/.
    2.5 and 2.4 reside in /usr/bin/.
    We have failed to get dpkg to see 2.3 via symlink and need to try to move 2.3 into /usr/bin/.
    We searched and googled here and www but could not find instructions for un-installing 2.3 and they are not included in the build package.
    ls -l | grep ^l returns nothing and we think that means there are no symlinks ON 2.3 but we dont know if that means there are no symlinks pointing to 2.3.
    ls -al returns no "d" strings except . and .. so we think that means no hard links but again we are not sure if this is true globally and dont know enough to know how to know.
    We find a hard link to 2.3 in /usr/bin/ even if dpkg dosent!


    Can someone please tell us how to safely remove 2.3 or move it?

    Thank you for your time.
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