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diff --git a/software/debian b/software/debian new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ddf5d14 --- /dev/null +++ b/software/debian @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +=========================== +Debian Linux +=========================== + +Some gotchas from installing debian a few times: + + * Massive ``ssh`` headache issues from around 2007-2008; make sure to check on + these. + + * ``git`` is not what you want; you want ``git-core`` + + * Python transition should be better, but I couldn't find a way. + To get to python 2.5 on etch, do something like:: + + Edit /usr/share/python/debian_defaults to this Code: + + # the default python version + default-version = python2.5 + # all supported python versions + supported-versions = python2.4, python2.5 + # formerly supported python versions + old-versions = python2.3 + # unsupported versions, including older versions + unsupported-versions = python2.3 + + Then sudo pycentral updatedefault python2.4 python2.5 + And change the symlink /usr/bin/python to point to python2.5 |