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wazoox on Feb 16, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Perl Renaissance

Arch Linux now ships Python3 only. That's quite a problem, because many things still depend on Python 2.x (for instance building Firefox from source).

PommeDeTerre on Feb 16, 2013 [–]

So download the latest Python 2.7.x source code and install it yourself. Python is extremely easy and quick to build from source on Linux.

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