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

[Chris Green]

Mirko <mirkok.lists at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 22.12.2020 at 20:24 Chris Green wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> If it's just one .so and that library is compatible with basic libs
> such as glibc and has no further big dependencies, then there may be
> a simpler way than cx_freeze or even snap/docker/etc.
> 
> Python 2 will likely be available for quite some more years as an
> optional package. But even with a self-compiled version, you should
> be able to put the required libraries somewhere and set
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH or maybe LD_PRELOAD accordingly. For a few depending
> libs, this works well, but it gets really nasty if glibc or big
> frameworks such as GTK are involved.

Unfortunately GTK is involved, the utility pops up a GUI that uses
Gtk2, that's part of the can of worms that this has become because of
the non-trivial migration of GTK from Python 2 to Python 3.

As I said I have the Python source and it's not particularly difficult
to move that from Python 2 to Python 3, the killer is a .so compiled
for Python 2.

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Chris Green
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