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James1138

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Registered: 2018-09-27

Posts: 45  

Question - adding earlier Devuan repos as option restore to Python2

Hello all from Indiana.

I see as of Devuan 4 / Debian 11, Python2 has been dropped from its repositories since no longer supported. However, I have some older apps like OpenTeacher that rely on Python2 and wonder if adding eariler repos such as ASCII & Beowulf allow installing Python2?

Google search turns up things like "Python-PIP" - sounds confusing and iffy (to me anyway) as a solution for adding Python2 back.

Thanks in advance.
James

mrnhmath

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Registered: 2019-05-31

Posts: 19  

Re: Question - adding earlier Devuan repos as option restore to Python2

You can compile it from source or manually download and install the python2.7 and libpython2.7-stdlib deb packages from the oldstable repository.