Monday, May 5, 2014

How to install Gnome on Debian 6 minimally

Install Debian 6 from installation CD
Choose only Standard System Utilities.  Uncheck Graphical Desktop Environment
Reboot and logon after installation finish

apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse xserver-xorg-video-vmware


Use virtualenv to manage multiple version of python on linux

virtualenv can switch between multiple python version and addon.
Use pip to install additional python packages in each python environment

virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 py3env
source py3env/bin/activate
pip install package-name