installing older version of python3

[morgon]

Hi,

I am running Debian testing and have installed python 3.8.2.

For a particular software I now need python 3.7.

Is there any sensible way that I could install such an older version via aptitude so that both versions can coexist?

Many thanks!

[sunrat]

Your mysterious undisclosed "particular software" will probably work with python3.8 so just symlink it:

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ln -s /usr/bin/python3.8 python3.7

or maybe better:

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ln -s /usr/bin/python3 python3.7

This actually and surprisingly worked for me for one application which was looking for python2 after I had removed python2 in sid, just symlinked python2 to python3. Not guaranteed that would work for all python2 applications but much more likely it would work for python3.7 to 3.8.

[morgon]

Actually (and not so surprisingly as it is the topic of several issues) the GUI-framework kivy does not work (yet) with python 3.8.

Unfortunately I want to run katrain which does depend on it, so your hack does not work for me.

[sunrat]

Looks like you can install kivy on python3.8 with pip - https://github.com/kivy/kivy/issues/656 ... -560039155

[morgon]

It's not working with pip on my system.

Please do not "help" me anymore.

[sunrat]

It's not working with pip on my system.

Please do not "help" me anymore.

You're welcome.

[sickpig]

Is there any sensible way that I could install such an older version via aptitude so that both versions can coexist?

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update-alternatives

is Debian's very own tool to manage multiple versions of packages like python. A gui front-end is available via galternatives.