On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 2:36 AM, Irmen de Jong <irmen.nos...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On 25-7-2013 17:11, santiago.d...@caoba.fr wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I never write any Python program but as a system administrator, I'm often >> asked to install python on Debian servers. >> >> I just finished downloading, configuring, making and installing. >> >> The binary is now installed in : >> /usr/local/Python-2.7.5/bin/python2.7 >> (the path is a deliberate administrator choice). >> > Why didn't you use the Debian package instead? You now have installed an > unsupported, > untested custom built Python version on your server. Why not simply > > $ apt-get install python
That'll do fine on Debian 7 (Wheezy, current stable). On Debian 6 (Squeeze, oldstable), that'll get you a 2.6 release IIRC. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
