title: Installing Python2.6
body: <p>I'm trying to install python 2.6 on LinuxMint. I've came across a few issues.</p>
  
  <p>The first thing I did was to download Python2.6.8 from the <a href="http://www.python.org/getit/releases/2.6.8/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">python website</a></p>
  
  <p>Then, I've extracted the files, ran a </p>
  
  <pre><code>./configure --prefix=/opt/python-2.7.3 --with-threads --with-signal-module --with-pydebug
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I found this <a href="http://cheater.nemoden.com/python-installation/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>  which I found <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10654707/no-module-named-zlib-found">here</a></p>
  
  <p>When I run the <code>make</code> command, I get these errors:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules:
  _bsddb             _curses            _curses_panel   
  _hashlib           _sqlite3           _ssl            
  bsddb185           bz2                dbm             
  dl                 gdbm               imageop         
  linuxaudiodev      ossaudiodev        readline        
  sunaudiodev                                           
  To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the module's name.
  
  
  Failed to build these modules:
  crypt              nis                                
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have installed all the packages mentioned in the Cheater's page.
  I successfully installed python2.6 without all the options that I mentioned, but I can't get the bz2 module to work.</p>