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

[Grant Edwards]

On 2020-12-22, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> 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.

I should have mentioned that bundlers like cx_freeze require that you
have the Python source for the main app. I don't remember if you
mentioned source or not...

--
Grant