How to install Python on Debian GNU/Linux (Python-2.7.2.tar.bz2)

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:23 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> Generally speaking, unless you are an expert, you should not use make
> install when installing Python from source, because it will replace the
> system Python with the newly installed one.
>
> Instead use `sudo make altinstall`

Mea culpa, forgot that. Yes, use altinstall. Although it's probably
not a problem to replace 2.6.6 with 2.7.2 - I doubt that'll break many
things.

ChrisA