Installing Python (2.7) 'by hand' on Ubuntu - possible?

[Chris Green]

Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2020-12-22, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > How realistic/possible would it be to run the utility in a separate
> > environment with its own copies of Python2 and any modules and
> > libraries needed?  I would install these 'by hand', i.e. not using
> > 'apt' so they would stay as installed even as my system gets upgraded.
> 
> If you do have it running on a Linux system, then there are tools to
> "bundle" it with all the required libraries. The one that I've used
> most recently is cx_freeze (I generally use it to create bundles for
> Windows):
> 
> https://cx-freeze.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
> 
> If you want to use it for a 2.7 app, you'd need to use 5.1
> 
That looks a good approach, thank you.

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Chris Green
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