On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 08:01:33PM -0400, james wrote > Me, palemoon is my fav browser and it seems to be long term stuck on > python 2.7...... Any suggests on a more secure, feature rich browser > other than palemoon would be interesting to me to at least test.
Pale Moon is a Firefox fork and has inherited this dependancy from it. I used to build Pale Moon manually on an older 32-bit CentOS chroot. That CentOS version only went up to python 2.4, which did not work. I had to download a python 2.7 tarball and build it in the home dir (yes, it works). The Pale Moon build toolchain found it and it built OK. The steps are... # # Name it whatever you want mkdir pysource cd pysource wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.18/Python-2.7.18.tar.xz tar xf Py* cd Python-2.7.18 # # Name it whatever you want ./configure --prefix=$HOME/py27 make # # "su" or "sudo" is not required in the next step. You have write # permission to your home directory. make install The "make" command may take while to build, depending on RAM and CPU in your machine. Afterwards you probably have to include... <dev-lang/python-3.0 ...in package.mask and also... =dev-lang/python-2.7.18 ...in package.provided. Since the install in $HOME is not done by Portage, it'll be left alone. You may still run into problems if an ebuild looks for python files via hard-coded paths in /usr. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
