How can I install python-iso8601_0.1.4-2_all.deb on Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid)

Question

I am using Ubuntu 10.04, which supports Python up to version 2.6.5. However, I need to install the package python-iso8601_0.1.4-2_all.deb, which depends on python (>= 2.6.6-7~).

I can not upgrade the distro, since I am using some other packages which are not supported in 10.10+

Thank you!

/Nico.

Answer 1

Thats likely to break far too many things. You are better of installing the ISO 8601 package as an egg from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/iso8601/ for example.

Answer 2

Install pip :

sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev build-essential 
sudo pip install --upgrade pip 
sudo pip install --upgrade virtualenv

and then install your package:

sudo pip install iso8601