A developer wanted packages python-networkx python-numpy python-scipy python-matplotlib amongst others. Then I learned he had developed everything in Ubuntu where 2.7 is the standard version.
No problem, add a repo for testing and install python2.7 There are two problems with the shopping list within testing. python2.7-matplotlib is not among the 500+ python* packages in testing. If I do: aptitude -t testing install python2.7-scipy python2.7-numpy It comes back with a suggestion to remove 44 packages from the system including gcc, virt-manager, etc. Is there a way to add in these 2.7 packages without interfering with core python 2.6 (as installing python2.7 was able to be a simple alternate)? I've seen something called pip but never used it. Is this like pear/pecl for php? Would that be the key? How to control it so it doesn't clobber python 2.6 land?
