python2.7 version 2.7.18 is available in the Ubuntu 22.04 default repositories. Ubuntu 22.04 is the last LTS version of Ubuntu that contains this package in its default repositories. The phrase "I installed the new Ubuntu 22.04" in your question worries me because the newest Ubuntu LTS is not Ubuntu 22.04; it's Ubuntu 24.04. Please run lsb_release -a to confirm what version of Ubuntu you are using.
The expected results of lsb_release -a are:
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Release: 22.04
Codename: jammy
To install python2.7 in Ubuntu 22.04 open the terminal and type:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install python2.7
Ubuntu 24.04
To install the python2.7 package from the Ubuntu 22.04 default repositories in Ubuntu 24.04 open the terminal and type:
sudo apt update
wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/python2.7/python2.7_2.7.18-13ubuntu1.5_amd64.deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/python2.7/libpython2.7-stdlib_2.7.18-13ubuntu1.5_amd64.deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/python2.7/python2.7-minimal_2.7.18-13ubuntu1.5_amd64.deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/python2.7/libpython2.7-minimal_2.7.18-13ubuntu1.5_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./libpython2.7-minimal_2.7.18-13ubuntu1.5_amd64.deb ./libpython2.7-stdlib_2.7.18-13ubuntu1.5_amd64.deb ./python2.7-minimal_2.7.18-13ubuntu1.5_amd64.deb ./python2.7_2.7.18-13ubuntu1.5_amd64.deb
Need to install python 2. How do I accomplish this?
Python2.7 on Ubuntu 23.04
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Running Mint 22 and I need to install python 2.7 because I'm trying to mod a leapster. I haven't found a way that works yet. If anyone reading this knows how to install SPECIFICALLY python 2.7, please let me know as soon as you can. Thanks!
First, install some dependencies:
sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall
sudo apt-get install libreadline-gplv2-dev libncursesw5-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev tk-dev libgdbm-dev libc6-dev libbz2-dev
Then download using the following command:
version=2.7.13
cd ~/Downloads/
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/$version/Python-$version.tgz
Extract and go to the directory:
tar -xvf Python-$version.tgz
cd Python-$version
Now, install using the command you just tried, using checkinstall instead to make it easier to uninstall if needed:
./configure
make
sudo checkinstall
Change version to whichever version you need (version=2.7.1 or version=3.6.0, for example).
Unless you really have a burning desire to compile it yourself, the preferred way is to use the DeadSnakes PPA to install versions of Python that aren't included by default:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python2.7
Other versions, such as python2.4 or python3.6, etc. are also available.
HI! I recently change my system from Ubuntu 22.04 to Ubuntu 23.04 because I built a new computer and had some trouble getting my system to run on the older kernel. Last week i tried to work on a project from work and i notice python 2 is not installed out of the box, tried to install it from the official Ubuntu repo with apt but found out it is not available anymore. Also tried to compile it from source with no luck either since tons of decencies are missing. Has anyone here manage to install Python2.7 on their machine? If so, could you help me?
I encourage to install just your python dependencies using a python package, as this other question and answer suggest: How do I install a different Python version using apt-get?
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3.9
Install anaconda https://phoenixnap.com/kb/how-to-install-anaconda-ubuntu-18-04-or-20-04
Anaconda manages different versions of python and their packages by creating environments that are isolated.
So you can install whatever versions of python without crushing.
conda create --name envp39 python=3.9
This creates python environment with python 3.9
You can switch version by changing environments with
conda activate envp39
You have to open/install the software in a shell with activated envp39.
This version is no longer available in canonical mirrors.
It has been released in 2013.
As a result, having both python and pip working together since then is challenging.
Python 2.7.5 + PIP on centos7
It may be the simplest way if ubuntu is not a requirement.
CopyARG CENTOS_VERSION=7
FROM centos:$CENTOS_VERSION
# Python 2.7.5 is installed with centos7 image
# Add repository for PIP
RUN yum install -y epel-release
# Install pip
RUN yum install -y python-pip
RUN python --version
ENTRYPOINT [ "python" ]
Python 2.7.5 on ubuntu
I've been able to install it from source
It has not been a success to install pip :
https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/2.7/get-pip.py
CopyARG UBUNTU_VERSION=18.04
FROM ubuntu:$UBUNTU_VERSION
ARG PYTHON_VERSION=2.7.5
# Install dependencies
# PIP - openssl version > 1.1 may be an issue (try older ubuntu images)
RUN apt-get update \
&& apt-get install -y wget gcc make openssl libffi-dev libgdbm-dev libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev zlib1g-dev \
&& apt-get clean
WORKDIR /tmp/
# Build Python from source
RUN wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/$PYTHON_VERSION/Python-$PYTHON_VERSION.tgz \
&& tar --extract -f Python-$PYTHON_VERSION.tgz \
&& cd ./Python-$PYTHON_VERSION/ \
&& ./configure --enable-optimizations --prefix=/usr/local \
&& make && make install \
&& cd ../ \
&& rm -r ./Python-$PYTHON_VERSION*
RUN python --version
ENTRYPOINT [ "python" ]
Python 2.7.6 + pip on ubuntu
Ubuntu 14.04 still has mirrors working (how long ???).
Python packages are really close to your expectations.
You may try to run your scripts with that one.
CopyARG UBUNTU_VERSION=14.04
FROM ubuntu:$UBUNTU_VERSION
RUN apt-get update \
&& apt-get install -y python python-pip \
&& apt-get clean
RUN python --version
ENTRYPOINT [ "python" ]
Python 2.7.5 + pip, not working but could on ubuntu
Here is what I've tried with no success.
CopyARG UBUNTU_VERSION=16.04
FROM ubuntu:$UBUNTU_VERSION
# Install dependencies
RUN apt-get update \
&& apt-get install -y wget gcc make openssl libffi-dev libgdbm-dev libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev zlib1g-dev \
&& apt-get clean
WORKDIR /tmp/
# Build python from source
RUN wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/$PYTHON_VERSION/Python-$PYTHON_VERSION.tgz \
&& tar --extract -f Python-$PYTHON_VERSION.tgz \
&& cd ./Python-$PYTHON_VERSION/ \
&& ./configure --enable-optimizations --prefix=/usr/local \
&& make && make install \
&& cd ../ \
&& rm -r ./Python-$PYTHON_VERSION*
# Build pip from source
RUN wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/2.7/get-pip.py \
&& python get-pip.py
RUN python --version
ENTRYPOINT [ "python" ]
Python 2.7.9 with pip - as requested in comment
You can use this dockerfile, building python includes pip.
CopyARG UBUNTU_VERSION=16.04
FROM ubuntu:$UBUNTU_VERSION
ARG PYTHON_VERSION=2.7.9
# Install dependencies
RUN apt-get update \
&& apt-get install -y wget gcc make openssl libffi-dev libgdbm-dev libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev zlib1g-dev \
&& apt-get clean
WORKDIR /tmp/
# Build Python from source
RUN wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/$PYTHON_VERSION/Python-$PYTHON_VERSION.tgz \
&& tar --extract -f Python-$PYTHON_VERSION.tgz \
&& cd ./Python-$PYTHON_VERSION/ \
&& ./configure --with-ensurepip=install --enable-optimizations --prefix=/usr/local \
&& make && make install \
&& cd ../ \
&& rm -r ./Python-$PYTHON_VERSION*
RUN python --version \
&& pip --version
ENTRYPOINT [ "python" ]
The simplest possible solution:
Copysudo apt-get install libssl-dev openssl
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.5/Python-2.7.5.tgz
tar xzvf Python-2.7.5.tgz
cd Python-2.7.5
./configure
make
sudo make install
After installation completed set installed python as default one.
I did it with pythonbrew on my Ubuntu 10.10 machine.
$ python -V
Python 2.6.6
$ curl -kL https://raw.github.com/utahta/pythonbrew/master/pythonbrew-install | bash
$ . $HOME/.pythonbrew/etc/bashrc
$ pythonbrew install 2.7.1
$ pythonbrew switch 2.7.1
Switched to Python-2.7.1
$ python -V
Python 2.7.1
I also used it to install Python 3.2.
I recently backported Python 2.7 to Debian squeeze. Since Ubuntu 10.10 is newer than Debian squeeze, if you can do it on squeeze, you can certainly do it on Ubuntu. I don't have access to a Ubuntu 10.10 system. If I set one up, I'll test on it, and update this answer. So, here instead is a brief sketch of what I did on Debian.
First, a general and obvious comment, but something that is easily overlooked. One should not take the listed build dependencies of a Debian package too seriously. They may be far more specific than needed. For example, software like Python, which is designed to be portable and run over a wide array of systems, is unlikely to build depend on very specific versions of software. The runtime dependencies can be adjusted as well, but this should be done with more caution. However, runtime dependencies are mostly generated dynamically based on software that is already on this system, so usually that is not a big issue.
apt-cache policy python2.7
python2.7:
Installed: 2.7.2-8
Candidate: 2.7.2-8
Version table:
2.7.2-12 0
50 http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian/ unstable/main i386 Packages
2.7.2-8 0
50 http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian/ testing/main i386 Packages
*** 2.7.2-8 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Selecting the testing version we get
apt-get source python2.7=2.7.2-8
Looking at debian/control, we see the following build dependency lines.
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), quilt, autoconf, libreadline-dev, libtinfo-dev, libncursesw5-dev (>= 5.3), tk8.5-dev, zlib1g-dev, blt-dev (>= 2.4z), libssl-dev, libexpat1-dev, sharutils, libbz2-dev, libbluetooth-dev [linux-any], locales [!armel !avr32 !hppa !ia64 !mipsel], libsqlite3-dev, libffi-dev (>= 3.0.5), mime-support, libgpm2 [linux-any], netbase, lsb-release, bzip2, libdb4.8-dev, gdb, python, help2man Build-Depends-Indep: python-sphinx Build-Conflicts: tcl8.3-dev, tk8.3-dev, tcl8.4-dev, tk8.4-dev, python2.7-xml, python-xml, autoconf2.13, libncurses5-dev
Most of this is easily satisfied on squeeze. With the handy utility apt-show-versions we get on my machine
apt-show-versions debhelper quilt autoconf libreadline-dev libtinfo-dev libncursesw5-dev tk8.5-dev zlib1g-dev blt-dev \
libssl-dev libexpat1-dev sharutils libbz2-dev libbluetooth-dev locales libsqlite3-dev \
libffi-dev mime-support libgpm2 netbase lsb-release bzip2 libdb4.8-dev gdb python help2man python-sphinx
autoconf/squeeze uptodate 2.67-2
blt-dev/squeeze uptodate 2.4z-4.2
bzip2/squeeze uptodate 1.0.5-6
debhelper/squeeze-backports uptodate 8.9.13~bpo60+1
gdb/squeeze uptodate 7.0.1-2+b1
help2man/squeeze uptodate 1.38.2
libbluetooth-dev/squeeze uptodate 4.66-3
libbz2-dev/squeeze uptodate 1.0.5-6
libdb4.8-dev/squeeze uptodate 4.8.30-2
libexpat1-dev/squeeze uptodate 2.0.1-7
libffi-dev/squeeze uptodate 3.0.9-3
libgpm2/squeeze uptodate 1.20.4-3.3
libncursesw5-dev/squeeze uptodate 5.7+20100313-5
libreadline-dev/squeeze uptodate 6.1-3
libsqlite3-dev/squeeze uptodate 3.7.3-1
libssl-dev/squeeze uptodate 0.9.8o-4squeeze5
libtinfo-dev not installed
locales/squeeze uptodate 2.11.2-10
lsb-release/squeeze uptodate 3.2-23.2squeeze1
mime-support/squeeze uptodate 3.48-1
netbase/squeeze uptodate 4.45
python/squeeze uptodate 2.6.6-3+squeeze6
python-sphinx/squeeze-backports uptodate 1.0.8+dfsg-2~bpo60+1
quilt/squeeze uptodate 0.48-7
sharutils/squeeze uptodate 1:4.9-1
tk8.5-dev/squeeze uptodate 8.5.8-1
zlib1g-dev/squeeze uptodate 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3
We see that everything except libtinfo-dev is available in squeeze. I do have the squeeze backport versions of debhelper and python-sphinx, but both of these are also available for debian squeeze in versions satisfying the build requirements.
Observe also that I have libncurses5-dev installed
apt-show-versions libncurses5-dev
libncurses5-dev/squeeze uptodate 5.7+20100313-5
Both of these packages correspond to the source package curses 5.7+20100313-5. Observe that libtinfo-dev in fact replaces libncurses5-dev.
apt-cache show libtinfo-dev
Package: libtinfo-dev
Source: ncurses
Version: 5.9-4
Installed-Size: 279
Maintainer: Craig Small <[email protected]>
Architecture: i386
Replaces: libncurses5-dev (<< 5.9-3)
Depends: libtinfo5 (= 5.9-4)
One would not expect python 2.7 to develop on such a specific version of curses, and in fact it doesn't. However, if you try to build the packages without satisfying the dependency you get
debuild -uc -us
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: libtinfo-dev
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Build conflicts: libncurses5-dev
debuild: fatal error at line 1289:
You do not appear to have all build dependencies properly met.
You can use mk-build-deps to generate a dummy package which
Depends on all the required packages, or you can install them
manually using dpkg or apt using the error messages just above
this message.
So, it is necessary to edit debian/control. Note that you also need to similarly edit the file debian/control.in, otherwise the control
file will be incorrectly regenerated from control.in. The simplest thing to do is just remove libncurses5-dev
from the Build-Conflicts line and libtinfo-dev from the Build-Depends line, and then run debuild -uc -us
again. If you are going to have this package installed alongside the standard default Python 2.6 packages on Debian squeeze, you
also need to remove the two lines
Conflicts: python-profiler (<= 2.7.1-2)
Replaces: python-profiler (<= 2.7.1-2)
Those lines are there because 2.7 includes the python-profiler functionality.
If 2.7 is the default python, then python-profiler is no longer necessary.
However, if one is installing 2.7 as a non-default Python, that reasoning does not
apply, and python-profiler is still needed by 2.6.
This should build successfully, and result in the following list of binary packages.
ls -lah *.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 faheem staff 289K Jan 12 02:33 idle-python2.7_2.7.2-8_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 faheem staff 1.1M Jan 12 02:34 libpython2.7_2.7.2-8_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 faheem staff 2.5M Jan 12 02:34 python2.7_2.7.2-8_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 faheem staff 12M Jan 12 02:34 python2.7-dbg_2.7.2-8_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 faheem staff 4.9M Jan 12 02:34 python2.7-dev_2.7.2-8_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 faheem staff 6.0M Jan 12 02:33 python2.7-doc_2.7.2-8_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 faheem staff 692K Jan 12 02:33 python2.7-examples_2.7.2-8_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 faheem staff 1.7M Jan 12 02:34 python2.7-minimal_2.7.2-8_i386.deb
Finally, one can install the binary packages with
dpkg -i python2.7-minimal_2.7.2-8_i386.deb python2.7_2.7.2-8_i386.deb python2.7-dev_2.7.2-8_i386.deb libpython2.7_2.7.2-8_i386.deb
Sometimes dpkg can be a little difficult about satisfying dependencies when they are all installed at once, so you might have to run apt-get -f install afterwards if you get dependency errors, or alternatively install the packages in smaller groups.