Thread: I want to install Python
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aspidites is offline aspidites
2010-08-10 , 15:38
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Originally Posted by jabawok View Post
um.. am i missing something here? im pretty sure python is already loaded out of the box.
Code:
~ $ python
Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Nov 26 2009, 22:24:46) 
[GCC 4.2.1] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>
It's not. In most linux distros it is, but in the smaller ones (puppy, dsl, maemo 5)) it isn't.

As for the 'sudo apt-get install' suggestion, that won't work either, because sudo is not set up 'properly' on the n900. This will work though:
Code:
sudo gainroot
apt-get install python2.5
Of course, to do it that way, you'll have to have rootsh from HAM installed. Alternatively, as suggested above, download PyQt (or PySide) and it will automatically pull in python.
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