Am 05.12.2011 17:28, schrieb Chris Angelico: > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:23 AM, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> Generally speaking, unless you are an expert, you should not use make >> install when installing Python from source, because it will replace the >> system Python with the newly installed one. >> >> Instead use `sudo make altinstall` > > Mea culpa, forgot that. Yes, use altinstall. Although it's probably > not a problem to replace 2.6.6 with 2.7.2 - I doubt that'll break many > things.
Except that all 3rd party extensions and packages are missing if you install Python manually. Unless you *really* know what you are doing you shouldn't install Python manually. Debian's backports should provide a well integrated Python 2.7 package. Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
