Distributing program for Linux

[Weatherby,Gerard]

It’s really going to depend on the distribution and whether you have root access.

If you have Ubuntu and root access, you can add the deadsnakes repo, https://launchpad.net/~deadsnakes, and install whatever Python you want.

The default ‘python3’ remains but you can called a specific Python, (e.g. python3.10).

A typical shebang line would be:

#!/usr/bin/env python3.10

From: Python-list <python-list-bounces+gweatherby=uchc.edu at python.org> on behalf of Loris Bennett <loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de>
Date: Tuesday, March 14, 2023 at 12:27 PM
To: python-list at python.org <python-list at python.org>
Subject: Distributing program for Linux
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Hi,

If I write a system program which has Python >= 3.y as a dependency,
what are the options for someone whose Linux distribution provides
Python 3.x, where x < y?

I am aware that an individual user could use (mini)conda to install a
more recent version of Python in his/her home directory, but I am
interested in how root would install such a program.

Cheers,

Loris

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