I removed by mistake /usr/lib64/libpython2.7.so, and as a consequence, yum does not work.
So I'm trying to reinstall python2.7.18 (which is the version that I currently have) from source, but in compilation I get that some modules are missing
Python build finished, but the necessary bits to build these modules were not found:
_bsddb _curses _curses_panel
_ssl _tkinter bsddb185
bz2 dl imageop
readline sunaudiodev
To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the module's name.
But:
yum doesn't work, pip2 also doesn't work, setuptools for python setup.py install is not found...
And all solutions I'm finding involve some of those, so I'm getting into some circular problem here.
I looked for the *.rpm for python 2.7.18 for CentOS 7, in the hope I could just install it with rpm and solve the issue, but I couldn't find it.
Any idea?
Found a solution, starting from here.
After manually rm-ing all the /usr/**/*python2.7* files (probably just the libpython2.7.so* and the python2.7 executables would be enough), from
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/Packages/, I downloaded
bzip2-devel-1.0.6-13.el7.x86_64.rpm
compat-db-4.7.25-28.el7.x86_64.rpm
dlm-devel-4.0.7-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
dlm-lib-4.0.7-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
gdbm-1.10-8.el7.x86_64.rpm
gdbm-devel-1.10-8.el7.x86_64.rpm
keyutils-libs-devel-1.5.8-3.el7.x86_64.rpm
krb5-devel-1.15.1-46.el7.x86_64.rpm
libcom_err-devel-1.42.9-17.el7.x86_64.rpm
libdb-devel-5.3.21-25.el7.x86_64.rpm
libdb-tcl-5.3.21-25.el7.x86_64.rpm
libdb-tcl-devel-5.3.21-25.el7.x86_64.rpm
libselinux-devel-2.5-15.el7.x86_64.rpm
libsepol-devel-2.5-10.el7.x86_64.rpm
libverto-devel-0.2.5-4.el7.x86_64.rpm
ncurses-devel-5.9-14.20130511.el7_4.x86_64.rpm
openssl-devel-1.0.2k-19.el7.x86_64.rpm
pkgconfig-0.27.1-4.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-2.7.5-88.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-devel-2.7.5-88.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-libs-2.7.5-88.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-pycurl-7.19.0-19.el7.x86_64.rpm
sqlite-3.7.17-8.el7_7.1.x86_64.rpm
sqlite-devel-3.7.17-8.el7_7.1.x86_64.rpm
sqlite-tcl-3.7.17-8.el7_7.1.x86_64.rpm
python-setuptools-0.9.8-7.el7.noarch.rpm
python-six-1.9.0-2.el7.noarch.rpm
python-tools-2.7.5-88.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-urlgrabber-3.10-10.el7.noarch.rpm
readline-6.2-11.el7.x86_64.rpm
readline-devel-6.2-11.el7.x86_64.rpm
popt-devel-1.13-16.el7.x86_64.rpm
rpm-4.11.3-43.el7.x86_64.rpm
rpm-apidocs-4.11.3-43.el7.noarch.rpm
rpm-build-4.11.3-43.el7.x86_64.rpm
rpm-build-libs-4.11.3-43.el7.x86_64.rpm
rpm-devel-4.11.3-43.el7.x86_64.rpm
rpmdevtools-8.3-5.el7.noarch.rpm
rpm-libs-4.11.3-43.el7.x86_64.rpm
rpm-python-4.11.3-43.el7.x86_64.rpm
sqlite-3.7.17-8.el7_7.1.x86_64.rpm
sqlite-devel-3.7.17-8.el7_7.1.x86_64.rpm
tcl-devel-8.5.13-8.el7.x86_64.rpm
tix-8.4.3-12.el7.x86_64.rpm
tix-devel-8.4.3-12.el7.x86_64.rpm
tk-devel-8.5.13-6.el7.x86_64.rpm
tkinter-2.7.5-88.el7.x86_64.rpm
yum-3.4.3-167.el7.centos.noarch.rpm
yum-metadata-parser-1.1.4-10.el7.x86_64.rpm
zlib-devel-1.2.7-18.el7.x86_64.rpm
and installed them with sudo rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs --force *.rpm.
Yum works fine now.