Version 2.4

Links

Installing Python 2.4 on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

Ubuntu

To install python 2.4 and the development libraries:

32 bit

cd ~/Downloads/python/
wget http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/pool/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-minimal_2.4.6-1ubuntu3.2.9.10.1_i386.deb
wget http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/pool/main/p/python2.4/python2.4_2.4.6-1ubuntu3.2.9.10.1_i386.deb
wget http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/pool/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-dev_2.4.6-1ubuntu3.2.9.10.1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i python2.4-minimal_2.4.6-1ubuntu3.2.9.10.1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i python2.4_2.4.6-1ubuntu3.2.9.10.1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i python2.4-dev_2.4.6-1ubuntu3.2.9.10.1_i386.deb

64 bit

cd ~/Downloads/python/
wget http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/pool/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-minimal_2.4.6-1ubuntu3.2.9.10.1_amd64.deb
wget http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/pool/main/p/python2.4/python2.4_2.4.6-1ubuntu3.2.9.10.1_amd64.deb
wget http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/pool/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-dev_2.4.6-1ubuntu3.2.9.10.1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i python2.4-minimal_2.4.6-1ubuntu3.2.9.10.1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i python2.4_2.4.6-1ubuntu3.2.9.10.1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i python2.4-dev_2.4.6-1ubuntu3.2.9.10.1_amd64.deb

Virtual Environment

To create a virtual environment using this version of python:

virtualenv -v -p python2.4 --no-site-packages ~/repo/env/env-name/