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Re:Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf] by dvirsky on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @02:15PM (#23238148)
What Linux distro do you use that it doesn't have Python on it?
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Re:Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf] by philwelch on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @12:01PM (#23248445)
Ubuntu but I think the same was true for Arch.
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Re:Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf] by dvirsky on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @12:24PM (#23248751)
What? Half of Ubuntu's internal stuff is written in Python. They've switched to Python 3 but I've never heard of Ubuntu without Python.
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Re:Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf] by philwelch on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @02:10PM (#23249946)
I’m sure that’s true and maybe I’m misremembering but I still think I had to apt install a Python runtime I could actually invoke from the shell.
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