python2.6 needed as an aptitude package as dependency

[Asaf Las]

On Friday, January 17, 2014 4:24:16 PM UTC+2, Jan Hapala wrote:
> Hello,
> I need to install a program (MACS: http://liulab.dfci.harvard.edu/MACS/) for which I need to have Python2.6 installed.
> I do have two other Pythons installed but not this version.
> I will be grateful for your suggestions,
> Jan

you can try install from source option explicitly specifying python version
from command line. guess for altinstall it should be python2.6
python2.6 setup.py install --prefix /home/taoliu/

https://github.com/taoliu/MACS/blob/master/INSTALL.rst

/Asaf