On 6/22/06, George Georgalis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 10:06:52AM -0700, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
>I have a DEC Alpha that is running an older version of Debian.
>
>If I want to use a newer Python without a wholesale OS upgrade, what
>should I do?
>
>deeptow: cdl 511$ python -V
>Python 2.1.3
I'm using Python 2.4.2 with pkgsrc, a package system that can run
alongside your existing os pkg system.
Aren't there likely to be a bunch of dependencies that will also
require newer packages? I just looked at /etc/apt/sources.list and
all repositories are "woody". I did this a year ago so that I could
keep the existing system coherently updated, while preparing for the
release upgrade from 3.0 to 3.1. But I never did the upgrade.
So can I just add some "unstable" repositories and see what happens,
or is this a bad idea? Does "pkgsrc" handle dependencies? Does
"pkgsrc" have dependencies of its own that will trip me up?
Should I try building Python2.3 from a source distribution? Remember,
I am not running this on an x86 processor.
carl
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