Installing Django and Python 3.4 on a freshly registered Debian VPS

[Christian Kleineidam]

I want to install Django and Python 3.4 on a freshly registered Debian server.

What are the steps I have to take given that I want to use Python 3.4 and not the debian default of 2.7?

I expect I also need to install Apache, is that right?

Can you point me to a good tutorial that explains all the details of this process?

[Andreas Kuhne]

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Hi,

Just searching the net I found: http://www.extellisys.com/articles/python-on-debian-wheezy . It has information about how to install python 3.4 on debian. However I haven't used Debian myself (we use ubuntu on our production servers), so I can't verify if it's completely correct. Looks ok though. If possible switch to an ubuntu server instead, because then you will get python 3.4 as standard.

Regarding apache, I would probably choose nginx instead because it should be faster.

Regards,

Andréas

[Linux4Bene]

Op Sat, 04 Jul 2015 19:39:00 +0200, schreef Andreas Kuhne:

> Hi,
>
> Just searching the net I found:
> http://www.extellisys.com/articles/python-on-debian-wheezy . It has
> information about how to install python 3.4 on debian. However I haven't
> used Debian myself (we use ubuntu on our production servers), so I can't
> verify if it's completely correct. Looks ok though. If possible switch
> to an ubuntu server instead, because then you will get python 3.4 as
> standard.
>
> Regarding apache, I would probably choose nginx instead because it
> should be faster.
>
> Regards,
>
> Andréas

That's how I do it on my VPS. I also compile my own version.
Another option on Debian might be to look for a back port of Python 3.4
depending on the version (Wheezy 7.8/Jessie 8.1) you run.
Wheeze has python 3.2; Jessie Python 3.4, both installable as:

apt-get install python3

You can find what packages debian uses in the various releases:

https://packages.debian.org/

I like to compile my own as I works perfectly with virtualenv to exactly
use the version I want for my projects without messing with the system
wide Python installation.

Regards,
Bene

[Marek Turnovec]

Just searching the net I found: http://www.extellisys.com/articles/python-on-debian-wheezy . It has information about how to install python 3.4 on If possible switch to an ubuntu server instead, because then you will get python 3.4 as standard.

I think that it's not necessary. If someone wants Python 3.4, it's also available in Debian Jessie, which is the current STABLE version of Debian.

Regards

Marek