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RASPBERRY PI - LOADING NEW ITEMS

Former Member

I have just bought a rasberry pi with a preloaded sd card which includes python V2.6.6.  However I want to dowload version 3.2 as the book I have purchased has programs written in this version.  How do I get this new version onto the SD card so it comes up on the program list when the raspberry pi is booted up?  I am new to programming so the instructions need to be easy to understand.

 

Thanks

 

Stephen Richards

  • It took a slightly contrived search to narrow the results down to exactly what you need, but this worked:

     

    apt-cache --names-only search python  |  grep '^python3\.2'

     

    and it delivered this set of results:

     

    python3.2 - Interactive high-level object-oriented language (version 3.2)

    python3.2-dbg - Debug Build of the Python Interpreter (version 3.2)

    python3.2-dev - Header files and a static library for Python (v3.2)

    python3.2-doc - Documentation for the high-level object-oriented language Python (v3.2)

    python3.2-examples - Examples for the Python language (v3.2)

    python3.2-minimal - Minimal subset of the Python language (version 3.2)

     

    So in a nutshell, just "apt-get install python3.2" (and any other of the above packages you might want), and Bob's your uncle. image

     

    Morgaine.

  • in reply to morgaine

    Thanks for your response, r u saying I type "apt-get install python3.2" into my raspberry pi? What program do I need to be running and do I need to have it connected to the internet?

  • in reply to Former Member

    Yep, just that single command will do it.  Any required dependencies will be installed by apt-get automatically beforehand.  It'll probably ask you whether it's OK to download that amount of stuff first, because it'll be quite a few megabytes.

     

    The command has to be given to a root shell, so if you'e currently logged in as user "pi" then prefix the apt-get command with "sudo".  If you're logged in as root already then you don't need the "sudo".

     

    And yes, your Pi has to be connected to the Internet because the packages are not present on your local Pi but on remote repositories, and so they have to be downloaded.

     

    Morgaine.

  • in reply to morgaine

    I wasn't able to do download python 3.2 using the command above but have downloadeded it to the pi desktop.  How to I now run the program?