libpython2.7.20.1.0 not found while installing g++ 4.8

Question

I'm trying to upgrade my Centos6 system to g++ 4.8 using the following commands:

$ wget http://people.centos.org/tru/devtools-2/devtools-2.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/devtools-2.repo
$ yum install devtoolset-2-gcc devtoolset-2-binutils
$ yum install devtoolset-2-gcc-c++ devtoolset-2-gcc-gfortran

However I get an error on step 2:

 #  yum install devtoolset-2-gcc devtoolset-2-binutils
 /usr/bin/python: error while loading shared libraries: libpython2.7.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I've installed anaconda 4.4 and am running Python 3.6 from my Anaconda path. I'm not sure why I'm seeing this error when trying to upgrade g++.

Answer 1

Edit /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig as shown in this answer.