In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Holden
wrote:

>> Why are you compiling a package that is already built for you?
>> 
> I'm quessing because (s)he wants to test programs on less recent 
> versions of Python. Ubuntu 5.10 was already up to Python 2.4.2, so I 
> can't imagine there's anything older on Ubuntu 6.06.

There's a `python2.3` package with version 2.3.5 and a `python2.2` with
version 2.2.3 in it.  All of them can be installed side by side.

Ciao,
        Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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