So, you're a Python developer and like to use the 2.5.x track instead of the 2.6.x or the 3.x track. Well, never fear! Despite the fact that 2.5.5 is not installed in 10.04, or available in the repositories, you can still install it into your system. The following steps will show you how.
Open your terminal and type the following commands line by line:
sudo apt-get install build-essential gcc cd Downloads wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.5.6/Python-2.5.6.tgz tar -xvzf Python-2.5.6.tgz cd Python-2.5.6 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/python2.5 make make test sudo make install sudo ln -s /usr/local/python2.5/bin/python /usr/bin/python2.5
There you have it! Python 2.5.5 is installed. Now if you want to run it, you can either type python2.5 from the terminal, or you can make a shortcut for it by doing the following:
- Right-click on Applications.
- Select Edit Menus.
- Click Programming
- Click New Item
- Type "Python (v2.5)" in the Name Box
- Type "python2.5" in the Command Box
- Type any comments (optional) in the comments box or just click Ok
Now it should show up in your programming menu. Have fun with Python 2.5.5!
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12 comments:
instead of sudo make install is sometimes better to do sudo checkinstall
It's best to replace the command
sudo make install
with
sudo checkinstall --pkgname python2.5 --provides python2.5
Thanks,
I've been running in circles trying to get Google app engine to work. It requires 2.5.
Hopefully this install helps.
(and hopefully it doesn't interfere with 2.6, which I understand can be a risk)
Perry
This was real helpful!
http://mahageek.blogspot.com/2010/10/installing-python25-for-google-app.html
this is pre-compiled both 64 bit & 32 bit from debian for Ubuntu
Justin,
Your instructions worked beautifully. Very clearly written as well. I needed 2.5 to test web2py on my local machine, and now I have it.
Thanks from Atlanta
Dave
Thank you for the directions!
Seeing as Google App Engine still requires Python 2.5 and Ubuntu still ships with 2.6, and this is the first link when you search for installing python 2.5 on ubuntu, I've updated the directions with the most recent version of python 2.5
sudo apt-get install build-essential gcc
cd Downloads
wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.5.5/Python-2.5.6.tgz
tar -xvzf Python-2.5.6.tgz
cd Python-2.5.6
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/python2.5
make
make test
sudo make install
sudo ln -s /usr/local/python2.5/bin/python /usr/bin/python2.5
Thanks for the update info. I'll change the instructions ASAP.
The wget link is broken, should be:
wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.5.6/Python-2.5.6.tgz
This is a great post and helped on my installation of Python 3.2.2 on Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal). Quick side note, though: for successful symbolic linking on the last step, the command needs to be changed to
sudo ln -s /usr/local/python3.2/bin/python3.2 /usr/bin/python3.2
Helped me a lot - thanks!
Helped me a lot - thank you!
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