I have been using antix for about a month and am amazed at how good it is.
As part of moving towards the open source community I trying to get away from MS vb and into Python.
I see the antix package manager only caters for Python 2.5, and Tk 2.5. I fancy Python 2.6, Tk 2.6 and ttk. Tried installing Python 2.6 with apt-get - no go, then by downloading Python 2.6, and Tk 2.6 then using ./configure and make, I got so far but make did not work.
As you can see I am new to this, however I see from the web that lots of Linux users are having trouble with these packages.
So a simple question - should I give up, at least for the present?

Antix is based on Mepis and Debian. Debian testing and unstable repositories are only up to 2.5.4-2 for python. The gentleman on this link
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highlights how to install on Debian etch, which may work for you as well (no real idea). He also has a package available for download (near top of post).

FYI: the synaptic package manager and"apt-get" both pull from the same repositories (sources), hence if its not available in one, its not available with the other either.

thanks dolphin-oracle that really is most helpful, I'll follow your link.