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Re: Obtaining/compiling/installing python3.7

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On 2019-04-27, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
>> 
>> https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=python3.7
>> 
>> python3.7 is available in testing.
>
> Using Buster was my original idea but it's not ready in ways important 
> to me. I had been looking for Python3.7 in backports. What snags might I 
> hit attempting to use a testing package in stable? I'm using an isolated 
> system so I can take some risks.
>


I would do it this way (maybe not the very best way because I'm pretty
ignorant):

https://tecadmin.net/install-python-3-7-on-ubuntu-linuxmint/

The essential thing is not to touch or overwrite the default python
installation in /usr/bin/python, which would break certain things (or
many things) as I think you've already kind of discovered earlier, maybe.

This would be the frankensnag in installing the testing package,
creating a hybrid monster of a distro that might attack your
grandchildren when you're not looking (python being rather integral to 
the running OS, I think).

A docker instance (of which I know next to nothing) would be completely
sandboxed (if that is the term) and sans danger, in my understanding of
it. In that regard, why people don't run or suggest a docker Firefox
(which I believe exists somewhere) to assuage security concerns I'm
uncertain (perhaps more trouble than it's worth). 

-- 
The major, who had been a great fencer, did not believe in bravery, and spent
much time while we sat in the machines correcting my grammar. He had
complimented me on how I spoke Italian, and we talked together very easily. One
day I had said that Italian seemed such an easy language to me that I could not
take a great interest in it; everything was so easy to say. "Ah, yes," the
major said. "Why, then, do you not take up the use of grammar?" - "Another Country"

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Obtaining/compiling/installing python3.7 Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-04-26 19:50 +0200
  Re: Obtaining/compiling/installing python3.7 Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-04-26 20:20 +0200
  Re: Obtaining/compiling/installing python3.7 Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2019-04-26 20:40 +0200
    Re: Obtaining/compiling/installing python3.7 Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2019-04-26 21:40 +0200
      Re: Obtaining/compiling/installing python3.7 Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-04-27 08:30 +0200
  Re: Obtaining/compiling/installing python3.7 Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2019-04-26 21:30 +0200
    Re: Obtaining/compiling/installing python3.7 Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-04-27 08:50 +0200
      Re: Obtaining/compiling/installing python3.7 Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-04-27 09:50 +0200
        Re: Obtaining/compiling/installing python3.7 Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-04-27 13:30 +0200
      Re: Obtaining/compiling/installing python3.7 Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-04-27 12:20 +0200
      Re: Obtaining/compiling/installing python3.7 Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-04-27 16:20 +0200
  Re: Obtaining/compiling/installing python3.7 deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-04-26 21:50 +0200
    Re: Obtaining/compiling/installing python3.7 Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-04-27 09:00 +0200
  Re: Obtaining/compiling/installing python3.7 Kushal Kumaran <kushal@locationd.net> - 2019-04-27 04:30 +0200
    Re: Obtaining/compiling/installing python3.7 Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-04-27 09:00 +0200

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