Benjamin Kaplan wrote: > Extensions written in C must be recompiled for every version of > Python. Since you're using a version of Python not available through > the package manager, your packages are also not available through > that. You'll have to download the sources for those and compile them > by hand to. This is why most people stick with the precompiled > binaries.
As far as I remember you can use the Debian build system to create binaries for your Python version. You have to add Python 2.6 to /usr/share/python/debian_defaults and recompile the desired packages with "apt-get -b python-yourmodule". This should generate one to several deb files. Install them with "dpkg -i filename.deb". It's all documented in /usr/share/doc/python/python-policy.txt.gz, read the file with zless. By the way you mustn't install your own Python with "make install", use "make altinstall"! Your /usr/local/bin/python binary masks the original python command in /usr/bin. You should remove all /usr/local/bin/py* binaries that do not end with 2.6. Otherwise you may and will break existing programs on your system. Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
