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:
> > 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...
> 
Yes, I do have the Python source.  The only thing I don't have the
source for is a .so file and that's why I can't simply migrate the
program(s) from Python 2 to Python 3.

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Chris Green
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