Managing Python Packages

Question

I currently have 2 versions of python installed. 2.7.6 is the default version which shipped with Ubuntu 14. I also have 2.7.10 which I compiled from source installed in /opt/python2.7/

Is it possible to use the Ubuntu repository to install python packages for 2.7.10 which is stored in another directory? I understand I could use pip to do this but I'm just curious if apt-get could do the same thing.

Some of the packages I need are dateutils and Cheetah.

Thanks

Answer 1

Maybe you could use pyenv . And according to documentation you will have:

• Let you change the global Python version on a per-user basis.
• Provide support for per-project Python versions.
• Allow you to override the Python version with an environment variable.
• Search commands from multiple versions of Python at a time. This may be helpful to test across Python versions with tox.

Answer 2

Python packages are hosted by Python Software Foundation, which maintains the official repositories. PyPi deals only with python packages.

"apt-get" deals with Debian distros packages and it doesn't contain packages that need a "runtime" .. like Python packages, NodeJS packages, ...

However, You can manually build python packages from sources. Take a look at this post