topic Splunk 8 installation - Ubuntu default python used in Splunk Search

Splunk 8 installation - Ubuntu default python used

GaetanVP — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 21:26:30 GMT

Hello everyone,

When I install Splunk enterprise on my personal Ubuntu machine, it directly changed the default python bin.

It means that after the install when I type :

which python

It will return a bin located in /opt/splunk/bin/python, which is not the default python I want for my system.

I'm having trouble to find information about what is done during the install and how to change this behavior...

Thanks a lot for your help!

Re: Splunk 8 installation - Ubuntu default python used

richgalloway — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 20:50:16 GMT

I'm guessing you installed using rpm (or equivalent). Next time, use the tarball as it just drops files in the right locations and doesn't do any OS-related stuff.

To fix it, I think you just need to adjust your PATH variable to put your desired Python location before Splunk's.

Re: Splunk 8 installation - Ubuntu default python used

GaetanVP — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 21:25:55 GMT

Thanks for you reply, that helped me to find the root cause.

I used the tarball but I also added a line in my .bashrc file to add /opt/splunk/bin to my path (I just wanted the Splunk bin to be easier accessible)

But with that it also include the python bins that are located in that folder... Makes sense

Thanks again 🙂