Installing Python 2.4 on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx
Whoops. No one sent me the memo that Python 2.4 support was being removed entirely from the latest version of Ubuntu, 10.04 Lucid Lynx. To be fair, I was presented with the message that ‘these outdated packages will be removed’ and in that list was python2.4. I made the unfortunate assumption that this just mean the package was outdated (which it certainly is) and I’d have the ability to install it again in Lucid. There were a number of different packages on the list and in order to save time, I let the updater remove them …