FWIW -- if you don't find a cleaner way -- you could also bootstrap entire wheezy/sid in a chroot, install whatever you need to use there and then just provide a convenience wrapper /usr/local/bin/python2.7 in your stable installation which would invoke python2.7 from within the chroot.
for a related example see http://neuro.debian.net/blog/2011/2011-12-12_schroot_fslview.html On Thu, 31 May 2012, ode wrote: > I would like to run Python 2.7 and 3.2 on Debian stable. They are > not in squeeze-backports. I would rather not install them from > Unstable as I do not want a mixed system. Do I have to compile them > myself or do you know of another trusted source that has backported > them to Squeeze. > Many Thanks -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
