[Tutor] Paranoid Question

Norvell Spearman norvell@houseofspearman.org
Wed Jul 30 17:56:02 2003


On Wednesday, 2003.07.30, 12:47:16 -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> indeed, you are safe.  Via Debian's package system I currently have ALL of the 
> 2.x series and 1.52 installed.  I can invoke any of them as pythonX.Y.  
> /usr/bin/python is a symlink to the newest version.  Each one was compiled 
> with the version number in the destination path so there are no conflicts.
> Keep that in mind for your next install, you may want ~/norvell/python2.4.

My system has two pythons in /usr/bin as well.  Thanks for the tip.

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Norvell Spearman