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osiris2258
December 22nd, 2008, 05:20 AM
I am working on a project that requires multi-threading. In Python, this is only possible with 2.6 and 3, and due to compatibility concerns (the packages we need to use are still in 2.x code) we are working with 2.6.

The default python in 8.10 is 2.5.2. I have found python 3 in the repos, but I can't find 2.6 anywhere. Is there a package, or do I need to compile from source?

In the event that I need to compile from source, how do I do so? I have heard that Python is very difficult to update.

maximinus_uk
December 23rd, 2008, 12:58 PM
Had the same issue, and I found out this:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-defaults/+bug/278230

and

http://www.lysium.de/blog/index.php?/archives/229-Installing-Python-2.6-on-Ubuntu-8.04.html

Hope they are of some info.