On 2019-04-27, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote: >> >> https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=python3.7 >> >> python3.7 is available in testing. > > Using Buster was my original idea but it's not ready in ways important > to me. I had been looking for Python3.7 in backports. What snags might I > hit attempting to use a testing package in stable? I'm using an isolated > system so I can take some risks. >
I would do it this way (maybe not the very best way because I'm pretty ignorant): https://tecadmin.net/install-python-3-7-on-ubuntu-linuxmint/ The essential thing is not to touch or overwrite the default python installation in /usr/bin/python, which would break certain things (or many things) as I think you've already kind of discovered earlier, maybe. This would be the frankensnag in installing the testing package, creating a hybrid monster of a distro that might attack your grandchildren when you're not looking (python being rather integral to the running OS, I think). A docker instance (of which I know next to nothing) would be completely sandboxed (if that is the term) and sans danger, in my understanding of it. In that regard, why people don't run or suggest a docker Firefox (which I believe exists somewhere) to assuage security concerns I'm uncertain (perhaps more trouble than it's worth). -- The major, who had been a great fencer, did not believe in bravery, and spent much time while we sat in the machines correcting my grammar. He had complimented me on how I spoke Italian, and we talked together very easily. One day I had said that Italian seemed such an easy language to me that I could not take a great interest in it; everything was so easy to say. "Ah, yes," the major said. "Why, then, do you not take up the use of grammar?" - "Another Country"
