how do I install python2 on centos 9 stream?

Question

I am trying to figure out how to install python2 on centos9 stream. I am getting the errors below. Any suggestions?

sudo dnf install python2

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No match for argument: python2

Error: Unable to find a match: python2

Answer 1

Yes, you can, using this method:

If you cannot find a package for your distribution (and you probably should be able to), you can download a single-file executable "AppImage" containing Python 2.7 and the standard library. Just download the file, make it executable, rename it "python2" or create a symlink of that name pointing to the AppImage file, and put it in /usr/local/bin/, and getmail will happily run with it.

For example, on an x86_64 Linux system, you could:

wget https://github.com/niess/python-appimage/releases/download/python2.7/python2.7.18-cp27-cp27m-manylinux1_x86_64.AppImage
sudo install -m 755 python2.7.18-cp27-cp27m-manylinux1_x86_64.AppImage /usr/local/bin/
sudo ln -sr /usr/local/bin/python2.7.18-cp27-cp27m-manylinux1_x86_64.AppImage /usr/local/bin/python2

Source: https://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/documentation.html#python3