Install Python 2.6 on Debian Etch
Debian doesn’t yet have any Python 2.6 packages. But creating them on your own is very easy. You can: download my package or build your own and learn something in the process. The download will disappear as soon as I see some real distribution which doesn’t take all my shortcuts. So this are step-by-step instructions for typing in your shell. Download $ curl -O http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.1/Python-2.6.1.tar.bz2 $ mv Python-2.6.1.tar.bz2 python2.6-2.6.1.tar.bz2 $ tar -xvjf python2.6-2.6.1.tar.bz2 $ mv Python-2.6.1 python2.6-2.6.1 $ cd python2.6-2.6.1/ You need to properly name the directories as “packagename-version”. In this case the package name is “python2.6” - not “python” - which is why the version seems to be repeated. ...