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I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my laptop, now i want to use Python 2.5.4 for educational purpose. Can any one help me with step by step instructions... I also need IDLE for 2.5.4.

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2.5.4? Why? "Python 2.5.4 has been replaced by a newer bugfix release of Python" Should that not be 2.5.6 according to: python.org/download/releases/2.5.4 – Rinzwind Oct 22 '12 at 8:10
Please create a new question for idle. AU works best with 1 question and 1 valid answer. – Rinzwind Oct 22 '12 at 8:19

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I use https://launchpad.net/~fkrull/+archive/deadsnakes for all the old python versions.

It seems maintained and new versions are also added.

simply do the following:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:fkrull/deadsnakes
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python2.5
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Excellent and easier than mine so +1 ;) – Rinzwind Oct 22 '12 at 8:36
This and virtualenv's has saved me enourmous ammounts of hassle ;) – Steveh Oct 22 '12 at 9:01
This method does install 2.5.6 btw. I got distracted by the question asking for 2.5.4... – Rinzwind Oct 22 '12 at 9:07
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This is an installation path for installing 2.5.4 from source:

sudo apt-get install build-essential gcc
cd Downloads
wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.5.4/Python-2.5.4.tgz
tar -xvzf Python-2.5.4.tgz
cd Python-2.5.4
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/python2.5
make
make test
sudo checkinstall --pkgname python2.5 --provides python2.5 
sudo ln -s /usr/local/python2.5/bin/python /usr/bin/python2.5

You can use this version by issueing python2.5 instead of python.

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