Evan Kroske schrieb: > I'm planning on learning Python, and I'd like to know which version to > start with. I know that Python 3.0 isn't ready for production and it > doesn't have enough libraries yet, so I thought I should learn Python > 2.6. Unfortunately, installing Python 2.6 on my Linux distro (Ubuntu > Intrepid Ibex) has given me lots of complicated problems I really don't > want to deal with.
It's rather easy to install Python 2.6 on Ubuntu 8.10 if you know how to do it right: # get all dependencies and necessary header files sudo apt-get build-dep python2.5 # download and extract it curl http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.2/Python-2.6.2.tgz | tar -xzv # Python is compiled with UCS 4 on all Debian systems cd Python-2.6.2 ./configure --enable-unicode=ucs4 --prefix=/usr/local # compile it make # use altinstall so you don't overwrite the python command # and just install the python2.6 command sudo make altinstall Now you have Python 2.6.2 in /usr/local In order to remove it complete follow the instructions of my blog: http://lipyrary.blogspot.com/2009/04/ubuntu-904-jaunty-and-python.html Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list