On Jan 20, 2:39 pm, Benedict Verheyen <benedict.verhe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 19/01/2012 5:36, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:10:43 -0800, alex23 wrote: > > <snip> > > > download the tar ball > > extract the contents of the file > > cd into the source directory > > run ./configure > > run make > > optionally run make test > > run sudo make altinstall > > > As a total n00b who'd never used make before, it took me 25 minutes > > effort on my first attempt, including reading the entire README file > > (twice!). Now I have the whole process down to about 30 seconds effort, > > and six minutes elapsed time, on my laptop. > > <snip> > > My first attempt to compile it on Debian took some extra steps, > as Python didn't find the ncurses and and readline libs. > But it was still easy to figure out how to build and install (locally) all > the necessary packages. > I leave the system installed python alone, and install the python version > I built in $HOME/usr/local so I can later use this in a virtualenv. > > These are part of my notes from a while back so version might not be > up to date anymore. > > 1. Compile zlib > tar xzvf zlib-1.2.5.tar.gz > cd zlib-1.2.5 > ./configure --64 --prefix=$HOME/usr/local > make > make install > > 2. Compile readline > tar xzvf readline-6.1.tar.gz > ./configure --enable-shared --prefix=$HOME/usr/local > make > make install
> > 3. Compile ncurses > tar xzvf ncurses-5.7 > ./configure --with-shared --enable-termcap --prefix=$HOME/usr/local > make > make install If you apt-get the foll libncurses5-dev libreadline6-dev zlib1g-dev the first three steps should not be necessary. In general apt-get build-dep python2.7 will list out (a superset of) what python2.7 needs. > > 4. Install Python from source > tar xzvf Python-2.7.2.gz > cd Python-2.7.2 > export LDFLAGS="-L$HOME/usr/local" > ./configure --enable-shared --prefix=$HOME/usr/local > make > make install > > If i need to install a new version of Python, as I happen to have done today, > I only need to do step 4. Which is maybe 5 minutes of work. > > Cheers, > Benedict -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
