Two python distributions, sudo picking the wrong one

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Published on 2014-06-07T07:57:16Z Indexed on 2014/06/07 9:37 UTC
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I'm back to Linux after an over 10 year abstinence (fool me thinks). And a little rusty in the sys admin department.

I'm faced with an issue with my python distribution. I'm using Python 2.7, but based on the Anaconda flavour. I followed the standard guidance but recently I discovered an issue that I'm not sure how to fix.

Under sudo, the standard Python as comes with Ubuntu is provided. Under my user account python points to the Anaconda version:

dhk@localhost:~/home/$which python
/opt/anaconda/bin/python
dhk@localhost:~/home/$sudo which python
/usr/bin/python

This is an issue as using sudo pip [anything] usually acts on the wrong directory, yet I cannot use it without sudo.

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