Installing Python 2.6.2 on Ubuntu 12.1

[Miki Tebeka]

Greetings,

> The installation went through successfully, however I
> noticed that some of the _*.so files did not get built under
> lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/ folder (eg _sha256.so) , which is likely the reason
> why my setuptools install failed due to the error:
I believe you need the developer libraries for that (including the C header files). IIRC "sudo apt-get build-dep python" should install all the required packages.

HTH,
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Miki