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Revision as of 16:51, 15 April 2012

Installing Python 3.2.3 on Debian

This guide is aimed at developers, although it can be used by absolute beginners, It is provided as it is realised that the latest version of Python is not installed as part of Debian. Other distributions will in future contain this by default.

To install the latest version of Python 3.2.3 to Debian:

# install dependencies
sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev
sudo apt-get install libncurses-dev
sudo apt-get install libbz2-dev
sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev
sudo apt-get install sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install libgdbm-dev
sudo apt-get install tk-dev

wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.2.3/Python-3.2.3.tar.bz2
tar xvfj Python-3.2.3.tar.bz2 
cd Python-3.2.3

./configure
# (The 'configure' command takes approx 5 mins)

make
# (The 'make' command takes approx 46 min when you are not running X)

sudo make install
# (The 'make install' command takes approx 5 mins)

cd ~

IDLE shortcut in LXDE menu

To add an idle icon to the programming menu in LXDE:

sudo mkdir /usr/local/share/applications
sudo nano /usr/local/share/applciations/idle.desktop

Enter the following file contents:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=idle3 %F
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Name=IDLE
GenericName=IDLE
StartupNotify=false
Categories=Development;IDE;

Distribute module

To install most other Python modules, you will probably want to install the 'distribute' module. This is a replacement for the now deprecated 'setuptools':

wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/distribute-0.6.26.tar.gz
tar xvfz distribute-0.6.26.tar.gz
cd distribute-0.6.26
sudo python3 setup.py install
cd ~


PyGame Module

Watch this space!


PyQt Module

Watch this space!


GPIO Module

Watch this space!