[Tutor] ubuntu hassles.

[eryksun]

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 10:31 PM, mesrod at juno.com <mesrod at juno.com> wrote:
> I tried eryksun's suggestion on installing python3.3:
> "Ubuntu has a Python 3.3 package. Installation should be simple:
>     $ sudo apt-get update
>     $ sudo apt-get install python3.3"
> on my Ubuntu 12.04 system and got the following message:
> E: Unable to locate package python3.3
> E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'python3.3'
> Eugene Rodriguez

The 3.3 package was added in Quantal (12.10):

http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/python3.3

For 12.04 you can add the deadsnakes PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~fkrull/+archive/deadsnakes

>From source, you can use the `--prefix` configure option to install to
/opt or your home directory, or use checkinstall to create a local
package.