created on Oct. 16, 2012, 7:02 p.m. by Hevok & updated on Oct. 16, 2012, 7:07 p.m. by Hevok
Installing any or multiple versions of Python on Ubuntu is simple.
First of all install some dependencies:
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install libreadline5-dev libncursesw5 libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev tk-dev libgdbm-dev libc6-dev libc6-dev libbz2-de
Download: ::
cd Downloads
wget http://python.org/ftp/python/2.7.2/Python-2.7.2.tgz
Extract and change directory to: ::
tar -xzf Python-2.7.2.tgz && cd Python-2.7.2
Install via building: ::
./configure
make
sudo make altinstall
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