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> From: Albert-Jan Roskam <fo...@yahoo.com> > To: Albert-Jan Roskam <fo...@yahoo.com>; Python Tutor Mailing List > <tutor@python.org> > Cc: > Sent: Friday, October 10, 2014 1:08 PM > Subject: Re: [Tutor] alternative Python 2.6 install? > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> 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 The first of the symlinks solved the zlib problem. The there was a problem with _sha256... ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so /lib/libz.so ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so /lib/libssl.so ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypt.so /lib/libcrypt.so ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so /lib/libcrypto.so ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so /lib/libbz2.so ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdbm.so /lib/libgdbm.so ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurses.so /lib/libcurses.so ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so /lib/libsqlite3.so OK, I gave up. I used Vagrant to install a Ubuntu 10.0.4 LTS virtualbox (which has Python 2.6 by default). Now I can SSH to that machine and do whatever I want. Sheesh. I am *still* very much interested to hear what might have gone wrong, though. Albert-Jan _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
