I am a new Linux user I just swapped over from Windows. Well rather I'm dual booting but plan to use Ubuntu as my primary OS from now on. I just installed Python 2.7.8 and in the thread that I read the instructions from the poster said that it was required that I install some dependencies. However, Python runs fine and I haven't installed anything else. I was wondering if this was just an older thing as the thread was installing Python 2.7.5 on an older version of Ubuntu (I am using 14.04 lts). I'll link the other thread below. If anyone can tell me why he installed the dependencies and if I need them that would be great. Thanks in advance for any help.
To clarify I was looking for anything that I needed to install before I could use Python 2.7.8 without issues, but this was before I learned that a version of Python shipped with Ubuntu. So I now have Python 2.7.8 and Python 3.4 (although my computer only shows Python 3.4 in the software center) as long as it is ok to have two different installs of different versions of Python without any drastic issues then I'm fine. I was just wondering if there was anything else that needed to be installed for them to work properly.