Well.  Looks like I ran into my first big problem with Debian.  Sniff...

The system originally came with Python 2.1 installed and a whole schwack of 
stuff has dependencies on it.  I would rather not remove it.

I am wanting to use Python 2.2.  So I install Python2.2 with apt:
 apt-get install python2.2

Yeah.  So now I have Python2.1 and Python2.2 on my system.  And I can install 
a lot of python packages for Python2.2 with things like
 apt-get install pygame-python2.2 

However with one of my packages for Python 2.2 it has Python as a dependency 
instead of Python2.2.  Python is a "meta package" that is currently pointing 
at 2.1.  This means whenever I try and install this package it fails because 
the Python package is the wrong version even though I do have Python2.2 on 
the system.

So my question is how do I get by this?  Is there a way to change which 
version of Python the meta Python package is pointing at?  

I tried force installing the package but next time I installed something it 
decided to remove it again.

Does anyone have any ideas?  

Jeff

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