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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list