Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!goblin2!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Is it that easy to install Python ? Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 18:32:50 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1374777170 2339 64.122.56.22 (25 Jul 2013 18:32:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 18:32:50 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:51251 On 2013-07-25, santiago.diez@caoba.fr wrote: > Hi there, > > I never write any Python program but as a system administrator, I'm > often asked to install python on Debian servers. Are you sure it's not already installed? I haven't seen a Linux distro for a _long_ time that didn't include Python as part of the base installation. > I just finished downloading, configuring, making and installing. > > The binary is now installed in : > /usr/local/Python-2.7.5/bin/python2.7 Why not just apt-get install python? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Uh-oh!! I'm having at TOO MUCH FUN!! gmail.com