Is it that easy to install Python ?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2013-07-25, santiago.diez at caoba.fr <santiago.diez at 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?

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