Thanks Robert, Letting your jessie image update itself brought python to the latest 2.7.9 version which is a good news.
Is there any write-up on BBB jessie? I see that wheezy serial port naming /dev/ttyO* was replaced by the traditional /dev/ttyS* Thanks, Enoch. Robert Nelson <[email protected]> writes: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Enoch <[email protected]> wrote: >> Good day to all, >> >> The latest BBB image is still using Python 2.7.3: >> >> debian@beaglebone:~$ python --version >> Python 2.7.3 >> debian@beaglebone:~$ uname -a >> Linux beaglebone 3.8.13-bone70 #1 SMP Fri Jan 23 02:15:42 UTC 2015 armv7l >> GNU/Linux >> >> This means reworking certain SSL stuff which was introduced in Python >> 2.7.9. >> >> What would you recommend? > > Correct, "wheezy" is still 2.7.3: > > https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/python > > You could use the "jessie" image, but even that is only "2.7.8".. > > This is the way debian works, what ever version of a package in the > repo around freeze time, is the version you'll get. Bugs/Security > patches can be added, but they don't upgrade for the sake of > upgrading.. > > Regards, > > -- > Robert Nelson > http://www.rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
