No. Debian testing doesn't have python2.6 (and forcing the install can break your installation, since several (in the order of thousands) packages depends of a specific version of python). It was dropped. If you want you can use stable
instead (if Mint has a stable equivalent) otherwise you are stuck with python2.7.
You can try installing Python on a separated path (using the --prefix
) from sources, or using pythonbrew, but replacing your system Python with another version is a big no-no.
If you already have python 2.6 installed, you can carefully install the packages from stable. Make double sure that the operation doesn't break something along the way.
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