Which may be non-trivial, as CentOS 8 is dead, and if Stream is not what you need, may be switching distros. Most of the maintainer attention is on EL 8 and 9, 7 is critical fixes only.īudget some of that time to figure out what you are are going to do post CentOS 7. While perhaps SCL is not the most popular packaging convention, it is already built and public, an advantage over your own source builds.Ĭurrently CentOS 7 is 87 weeks from end of life, which is not a lot by EL time scales. Note both the package name and the files are prefixed, which allows coexistence with other pythons. Your yum repo list hints that CentOS software collections are enabled, which could be an alternative. On my centOS machine i can find now the following python-pip packages. Starting with EPEL Version 7 it is renamed to identify the python version. Plus the distro's policy to avoid major upgrades, would seem like it is stuck on older Python. The reason why yum couldn't find python-pip was that it is not called python-pip anymore.

There is a python3.6 in EL 7, and EPEL policy is not to replace EL packages. When a package's exact name is not known (python3, python38, something scl) file name searches can do a more complete search: yum provides '*bin/python3*'Ĭorrect, there is no python3.8 in EPEL 7. Python scripts are actually used at the core of CentOS for functions vital to the functionality of the operating system.

Yum install python