2.3 on Debian Woody: doable?

[Rene Pijlman]

There doesn't seem to be an apt package for Python 2.3 on Debian Woody.

Should I expect unusual difficulties or unsolvable problems when building
and installing 2.3 on Woody from the source distribution of Python?

E.g. things like dependencies on other libraries that are not available on
Woody?

 

[Jan Dries]

There doesn't seem to be an apt package for Python 2.3 on Debian Woody.

Should I expect unusual difficulties or unsolvable problems when building
and installing 2.3 on Woody from the source distribution of Python?

E.g. things like dependencies on other libraries that are not available on
Woody?

I've installed 2.3 from source on a minimal Debian Woody, and it went
flawlessly. The only extra software I had to install was BerkeleyDB for
the bsddb package to work, but that has nothing to do with Debian.

Regards,
Jan

 

[Rene Pijlman]

Jan Dries:

Rene Pijlman:

I've installed 2.3 from source on a minimal Debian Woody, and it went
flawlessly. The only extra software I had to install was BerkeleyDB for
the bsddb package to work, but that has nothing to do with Debian.

Great Jan, thanks!

 

[Matt Goodall]

There doesn't seem to be an apt package for Python 2.3 on Debian Woody.

Should I expect unusual difficulties or unsolvable problems when building
and installing 2.3 on Woody from the source distribution of Python?

E.g. things like dependencies on other libraries that are not available on
Woody?

I know it's not really Woody but if you feel brave then Debian testing
is fantastic for Python. To tempt you, here's the list of readily
available Python packages:

http://packages.debian.org/testing/python/

Just in case you don't already know ... it's relatively easy to have a
basic Debian stable system with some packages (i.e. Python) upgraded to
testing or even unstable. Read about Debian apt pinning for more
information.

Cheers, Matt

 

[Rene Pijlman]

Matt Goodall:
[Python 2.3 on Debian woody]

I know it's not really Woody but if you feel brave then Debian testing
is fantastic for Python.

Thanks, but I'm developing for a customer with a production server running
woody, so testing is not an option for me.

Building 2.3 from source is ok, so I guess I'll do that. Just have to
figure out how to get mod_python and such up and running.

 

[Jules Dubois]

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 17:18:26 +0200, in article

There doesn't seem to be an apt package for Python 2.3 on Debian Woody.

Version 2.3.2 is in Sarge.

I'm running Libranet 2.8, a mixture of (at least) testing and some Libranet
mods. In many cases, it's possible to run both stable and testing
together... and unstable if you're braver than me. I've never had a
problem (Potato+Woody and now Woody+Sarge+Libranet), but this article
comes, as Microsoft disclaims, AS IS AND WITH ALL FAULTS.

Should I expect unusual difficulties or unsolvable problems when building
and installing 2.3 on Woody from the source distribution of Python?

Someone with actual experience might answer this. The only problem I've
*ever* had with source packages on Debian was yesterday with lm-sensors and
i2c.

E.g. things like dependencies on other libraries that are not available on
Woody?

That seems unlikely, although it's possible. If you build your own
packages and link them against existing libraries, it's likely to work.
(Perhaps, though you really will need some additional libraries.)

I don't know how to get a pastable text listing of the dependencies for the
binary package or I'd post them here.

 

[Mark Roach]

There doesn't seem to be an apt package for Python 2.3 on Debian Woody.

Should I expect unusual difficulties or unsolvable problems when building
and installing 2.3 on Woody from the source distribution of Python?

E.g. things like dependencies on other libraries that are not available on
Woody?

The easiest way is probably going to be backporting the package from sid.
It is actually fairly easy to do, just add a line like

deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib

to your /etc/apt/sources.list and then "apt-get source python2.3" then
from the python2.3 directory run dpkg-buildpackage. If you are missing any
dependencies it will let you know. You can also run "apt-get build-dep
python2.3" to have apt try to automatically install the required packages.

If there are dependencies that woody can't meet, then you perform the same
steps for each of those packages as well.

-Mark

 

[Jan Dries]

Matt Goodall:
[Python 2.3 on Debian woody]

I know it's not really Woody but if you feel brave then Debian testing
is fantastic for Python.

Thanks, but I'm developing for a customer with a production server running
woody, so testing is not an option for me.

Building 2.3 from source is ok, so I guess I'll do that. Just have to
figure out how to get mod_python and such up and running.

If you want to build mod_python from source as well, you need to patch
it, at least the 3.0.3 version, to work with Python-2.3.2, as the latter
no longer defined LONG_LONG.

Add the following to src/include/mod_python.h

/* python 2.3 no longer defines LONG_LONG, it defines PY_LONG_LONG */
#ifndef LONG_LONG
#define LONG_LONG PY_LONG_LONG
#endif

Beyond this, a mere
./configure --with-apxs=...
make
make install
did the trick for me.

Regards,
Jan