Installation of Python 2.7 on an Ubuntu 10.04 Server amd64 instance (using deadsnakes PPA).

install_python27.sh

#!/bin/bash

PYTHON27="/usr/bin/python2.7"
VENV_ROOT="/data/venv"

apt-get update
apt-get -y install python-software-properties
add-apt-repository ppa:fkrull/deadsnakes
apt-get update

apt-get -y install python2.7-dev python-pip

pip install virtualenv

mkdir -p ${VENV_ROOT}

virtualenv -p ${PYTHON27} ${VENV_ROOT}/python2.7

. ${VENV_ROOT}/python2.7/bin/activate
pip install fabric
# Additional argument to ensure argparse 1.2.1 available to pull down
pip install --allow-all-external -r "/tmp/pip-modules"