Is it that easy to install Python ?

Thu Jul 25 14:32:50 EDT 2013

On 2013年07月25日, santiago.diez at caoba.fr <santiago.diez at caoba.fr> wrote:
> Hi there,
>> I never write any Python program but as a system administrator, I'm
> often asked to install python on Debian servers.

Are you sure it's not already installed? I haven't seen a Linux
distro for a _long_ time that didn't include Python as part of the
base installation.
> I just finished downloading, configuring, making and installing.
>> The binary is now installed in :
> /usr/local/Python-2.7.5/bin/python2.7

Why not just apt-get install python?
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