On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 10:37 PM, Mario Figueiredo wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Under Linux Mint it is not a good idea to just go ahead and replace the
> system installed Python versions and their packages. And yet I wish to
> both update the 3.4 modules and install Python 3.5. I understand that
On 2015-09-30 04:15, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Mario Figueiredo wrote:
Personally, I use the regular 'make install', but that's because I'm
on Debian - the system Python is 2.7.
Unfortunately Ubuntu based distros are going through a 2.x to 3.x
transition period. B
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I think that it is generally a good idea to keep your development Python
> separate from the system Python, even if they use the same version. That
> way, even if you accidentally break your development Python, the system
> Python will cont
On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 01:00 pm, Mario Figueiredo wrote:
> So the solution is to just maintain 3 different versions
> of python my machine. Ridiculous.
Not at all. It's not like a Python install is that big -- Python 3.3 is only
about 150MB.
It's a little sad that Ubuntu isn't able to transition be
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Mario Figueiredo wrote:
>> Personally, I use the regular 'make install', but that's because I'm
>> on Debian - the system Python is 2.7.
>
> Unfortunately Ubuntu based distros are going through a 2.x to 3.x
> transition period. Both Pythons are installed and are sy
On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 10:00 PM, Mario Figueiredo wrote:
> On 09/30/2015 03:44 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>> The easiest way to install something from source is to use 'make
>> altinstall' for the final step. That should install you a 'python3.5'
>> binary without touching the 'python3' binary.
On 09/30/2015 03:44 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> The easiest way to install something from source is to use 'make
> altinstall' for the final step. That should install you a 'python3.5'
> binary without touching the 'python3' binary. That said, though, it's
> entirely possible that upgrading 'pyt
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Mario Figueiredo wrote:
> Under Linux Mint it is not a good idea to just go ahead and replace the
> system installed Python versions and their packages. And yet I wish to
> both update the 3.4 modules and install Python 3.5. I understand that
> for the first I jus
Hello everyone,
Under Linux Mint it is not a good idea to just go ahead and replace the
system installed Python versions and their packages. And yet I wish to
both update the 3.4 modules and install Python 3.5. I understand that
for the first I just need to use virtualenv.
But how can I safely in
