Am 23.05.2012 02:51, schrieb Benjamin Kaplan: > Even easier: > > ./configure > make > sudo make altinstall > > If I recall correctly, that will install it in > /usr/local/lib/python2.6 and it will create /usr/local/bin/python2.6 > but it will not create /usr/local/bin/python so it won't clobber the > system python.
You recall correctly. That's the recommended and correct way to install Python 2.6 on a recent machine, with one exception. You must compile it with the option MACHDEP=linux2, otherwise sys.platform will contain the string "linux3" [1]. You also must set LDFLAGS and some other flags because Python 2.6 doesn't support multiarch systems. [2] It's all in my blog. My default settings are: export arch=$(dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib/$arch -L/lib/$arch" export CFLAGS="-I/usr/include/$arch" export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/$arch" ./configure --enable-shared --enable-unicode=ucs4 --config-cache make MACHDEP=linux2 -j3 sudo make altinstall Christian [1] http://lipyrary.blogspot.de/2011/09/python-and-linux-kernel-30-sysplatform.html [2] http://lipyrary.blogspot.de/2011/05/how-to-compile-python-on-ubuntu-1104.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
