Eric Dorsey wrote:
I am trying to teach myself Linux, and so I'm running Ubuntu (Gutsy
Gibbon) as a virtual machine. I went to terminal, started up Python and
realized it was version 2.5 so I thought I'd just upgrade to 2.6.1 After
doing some Googling around, it seems that Ubuntu is highly reliant on
Python 2.5, so upgrading isn't so simple after all.
Is this just Ubuntu that is so integrated with Python, or all flavors of
Linux? Doesn't this hinder developers who use Ubuntu (and Linux?) as
their primary OS when new versions of Python come out?
It's not 'tightly' integrated per se. If you're familiar with
Debian/Ubuntu, you can add
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/doko/ubuntu/ gutsy
to your /etc/apt/sources.list file and then fetch python2.6 from there.
You'll have to invoke it as python2.6. The default /usr/bin/python will
still link to python2.5
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~noufal
http://nibrahim.net.in/
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