Is there anywhere I can go to get a clear guide on how to install Python from start to finish?

So far it seems like I'm piecing together bits and pieces of advice and coming up with nothing.

So far, I've enabled red pill mode. I haven't added any repos. I've got the ability to run as root on my tablet with rootsh.

At the moment I'm trying "apt-get install python2.5-runtime", but that's giving me a lot of dependency errors.

Advice?

make sure you've got maemo extras enabled,

then you should be able to do an:

apt-get install python2.5

What I usually do to install python is install Canola2 (my favorite media player) because it depends on Python and a bunch of its modules

Or, if you don't like canola, youamp, pygtkeditor, and all of the home-applets depend on python as well.

EDIT: I thought of a better idea. Install the Python Launcher from the application manager. It (obviously) installs python, and also speeds up launch times for python based applications

You should be careful with Canola to install Python dependencies, because it does not depend on the whole set that would be in python2.5-runtime. So in the end you would get a rather incomplete installation, depending on what you want to run. Canola alone is not enough if e.g. you want to run stuff that uses hildon or GTK.

That's an excellent point thanks.

I think last time I had to re-install python I just ran:

apt-get install python*

EDIT: try "apt-get -f install" if you're erroring out on dependencies

apt-get install python2.5-runtime

And where is "python" ?
(the virtual package that depends on latest python version, python2.5 now)


I need it because I have apps that depend on "python" and I am unable to rebuild in diablo. I can only find it in chinook.
Correction is trivial but maybe I missed a package...

And looking at this gives me headache, too many directories:
http://repository.maemo.org/dists/

Thanks!

apt-getting python gets me nowhere - just a dependency explosion.

Any suggestions on what I have to do BEFORE actually trying to get python on?

Answer to my question :

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...&postcount=169

I have found the following link, may be this is what one needs???

http://repository.maemo.org/pool/dia...e/p/python2.5/

make sure maemo extras is not disabled

as root