%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ Python2 The Python 2 package contains the Python development environment. It is useful for object-oriented programming, writing scripts, prototyping large programs or developing entire applications. This version is for backward compatibility with other dependent packages. &lfs81_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &python2-md5sum; Download size: &python2-size; Estimated disk space required: &python2-buildsize; Estimated build time: &python2-time; Additional Downloads Download (HTTP): Python 2 Dependencies Recommended Optional and Optional (For Additional Modules) , and If you are building or you must install openssl before you build Python 2. User Notes: Install Python 2 by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --enable-shared \ --with-system-expat \ --with-system-ffi \ --with-ensurepip=yes \ --enable-unicode=ucs4 && make To test the results, issue: make -k test. One test fails for unknown reasons. Now, as the root user: make install && chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libpython&python2-majorver;.so.1.0 Since Python 2 is in maintenance mode, and Python 3 is recommended by upstream for development, you probably do not need to install the documentation. However, if you still want to install documentation for both Python versions, be sure to define the PYTHONDOCS variable for the version you want to use, each time you need to consult the documentation. If you have downloaded the preformatted documentation from , install it as the root user: install -v -dm755 /usr/share/doc/python-&python2-version; && tar --strip-components=1 \ --no-same-owner \ --directory /usr/share/doc/python-&python2-version; \ -xvf ../python-&python2-version;-docs-html.tar.bz2 && find /usr/share/doc/python-&python2-version; -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} \; && find /usr/share/doc/python-&python2-version; -type f -exec chmod 0644 {} \; --with-system-expat: This switch enables linking against system version of Expat. --with-system-ffi: This switch enables linking against system version of libffi. Remove if you have not installed . --with-ensurepip=yes : This switch enables building pip and setuptools packaging programs. setuptools is needed for building some Python modules. --enable-unicode=ucs4: This switch enables 32bit Unicode support in Python. --with-dbmliborder=bdb:gdbm:ndbm: Use this switch if you want to build Python DBM Module against Berkeley DB instead of GDBM. chmod ...: Fix permissions for libraries to be consistent with other libraries. In order for python to find the installed documentation, you must add the following environment variable to individual user's or the system's profile: export PYTHONDOCS=/usr/share/doc/python-&python2-version; Installed Programs Installed Library Installed Directories 2to3, pydoc, python (symlink), python-config (symlink), python2 (symlink), python2-config (symlink), python&python2-majorver;, python&python2-majorver;-config, smtpd.py, and idle libpython&python2-majorver;.so /usr/{include,lib}/python&python2-majorver; and /usr/share/doc/python-&python2-version; Short Descriptions 2to3 is a Python program that reads Python 2.x source code and applies a series of fixes to transform it into valid Python 3.x code. 2to3 idle is a wrapper script that opens a Python aware GUI editor. For this script to run, you must have installed Tk before Python so that the Tkinter Python module is built. idle pydoc is the Python documentation tool. pydoc python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. python python&python2-majorver; is a version-specific name for the python program. python&python2-majorver; smtpd.py is an SMTP proxy implemented in Python. smtpd.py