What's the difference between /usr/lib/python and /usr/lib64/python?
python
Solution
The 64-bit version of the libraries?
What version of Python are you running? If you are running the 32-bit version, then you probably won't need those files.
Problem
I was using ubuntu. I found that many Python libraries installed went in both `/usr/lib/python` and `/usr/lib64/python`. When I `print` a module object, the module path showed that the module lived in `/usr/lib/python`. Why do we need the `/usr/lib64/python` directory then? What's the difference between these two directories? BTW Some package management script and `egg-info` that lived in both directories are actually links to packages in `/usr/share`. Most Python modules are just links, but the `so` files are not.