Ubuntu python version

Nadeem Bitar nadeem at gmail.com
Tue Feb 1 20:37:57 CST 2005


That's not true for all packages. You can't install revelation for
example in hoary.



On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 16:35:36 -0800, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 01:24:09AM +0100, Vincenzo Di Massa wrote:
> 
> > Hoary has python2.4 and 2.3
> > I installed both but apt get refuses to install packages depending on python
> > <=2.4
> 
> Packages depending on python <= 2.4 should install fine.  Did you mean 2.3?
> 
> > Is this a  known python/ubuntu problem? If the python2.3 package can be
> > installed the packages requiring it should find it! Maybe the python2.3
> > package needs some fix.
> 
> The python2.3 package is not the same as version 2.3 of the python package.
> If you are encountering problems in this area, it is because some
> unsupported packages have not yet made the transition to cope with python
> 2.4 as the default python version.  The universe maintenance team is working
> on this, but they could surely use more help.
> 
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