Only needed for debian<=6

python27_on_debian.sh

sudo apt-get install build-essential libsqlite3-dev zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev libgdbm-dev libbz2-dev libreadline5-dev libssl-dev libdb-dev

#for lxml
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
sudo apt-get install libxslt1-dev

#for mysql client
sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev
# On OS X instead (assuming brew installed...)
brew install mysql

wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.3/Python-2.7.3.tgz
tar -xzf Python-2.7.3.tgz
cd Python-2.7.3

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared
make
sudo make install
cd ..

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python2.6 20
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python2.7 10
sudo update-alternatives --set python /usr/bin/python2.6

#wget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py
#sudo python2.7 ez_setup.py
#sudo easy_install pip
#sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper

#config virtualenvwrapper
#to .profile paste:
#  export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/envs
#  source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

# sudo pip install pycrypto
# sudo pip install paramiko
# sudo pip install mysql-python
# sudo pip install requests
# sudo pip install beautifulsoup4