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> From: Albert-Jan Roskam <fo...@yahoo.com.dmarc.invalid> > To: Python Tutor Mailing List <tutor@python.org> > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, October 9, 2014 8:32 PM > Subject: [Tutor] alternative Python 2.6 install? > > Hi, > > > I need to install Python 2.6 on my Debian system to check some code.*) What > is > the easiest way to do this? Simply "sudo apt-get install python2.6"? I > know I can also compile it and then do make altinstall, but I prefer apt-get. > I > am kinda paranoid that I might accidentally change my system Python version. Ok, I decided to take the altinstall route anyway. I am now a getting message 'failed to find necessary bits to build these modules', even though I did install a whole bunch of packages (zlib1g is the first one that causes problems). Does anyone know how to solve this? I don't understand why e.g. 'zlib' still is missing while I clearly installed it! Alternatively: which Ubuntu (or Debian) version was the last version to use Python 2.6? I could simply install it in VirtualBox... Lame, but I am in kind of a hurry. This is what I did (outcommented lines are what won't work, or commands that are pointless at this point): sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev libbz2-dev libgdbm-dev libncurses5-dev tk-dev zlib1g-dev wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.8/Python-2.6.8.tgz tar -zxvf Python-2.6.8.tgz cd Python-2.6.8/ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make # [a] see 'failed stuff' below #sudo make altinstall #mkvirtualenv -p /usr/local/bin/python2.6 python26 # ImportError: No module named zlib #workon python26 #pip install mysql-python # [a] Failed stuff Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules: _bsddb _curses _curses_panel _hashlib _sqlite3 _ssl bsddb185 bz2 dbm dl gdbm imageop linuxaudiodev ossaudiodev readline sunaudiodev zlib To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the module's name. Failed to build these modules: crypt nis running build_scripts creating build/scripts-2.6 copying and adjusting /home/albertjan/Downloads/Python-2.6.8/Tools/scripts/pydoc -> build/scripts-2.6 copying and adjusting /home/albertjan/Downloads/Python-2.6.8/Tools/scripts/idle -> build/scripts-2.6 copying and adjusting /home/albertjan/Downloads/Python-2.6.8/Tools/scripts/2to3 -> build/scripts-2.6 copying and adjusting /home/albertjan/Downloads/Python-2.6.8/Lib/smtpd.py -> build/scripts-2.6 changing mode of build/scripts-2.6/pydoc from 644 to 755 changing mode of build/scripts-2.6/idle from 644 to 755 changing mode of build/scripts-2.6/2to3 from 644 to 755 changing mode of build/scripts-2.6/smtpd.py from 644 to 755 thanks in advance! Albert-Jan _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
