openSUSE: install alternate version of python without changing default version
<p>I'm running openSUSE 13.2. I already had python 2.7.8 and python 3.4.x. I ran into a situation where a business server was running python 2.6. I wanted to make a virtualenv, but I need to install the specific version first. I couldn't find python 2.6 in yast and I wasn't getting any hits when I was search for stuff in zypper. </p>

<p>So I downloaded the tar ball from python's download page for python 2.6.6 and followed the directions in the readme</p>

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<li>./configure</li>
<li>sudo make install</li>
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<p>This worked, but it changed my default python interpreter in the process. I worked through that and now things are fine. But I  might want to install a different python version in the future without having to worry about it changing my default interpreter. I'm pretty sure there's more I could do on my own, but I need to move on to something else and I'm wondering if anybody was some quick feedback on what I've done so far and what I should do in the future.</p>