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Asked: 2026-06-10T18:20:41+00:00

I’m new to Mac’s and Python. I want to install an older version of

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I’m new to Mac’s and Python. I want to install an older version of Python (2.5) on to the Mac (OS X 10.8.1).
I’m using homebrew as it’s newer than MacPorts and I don’t know enough to choose between them.

Following instructions I have installed Rails, mySQL, budle, pow – all sorts of stuff, but when I use the same technique to install python 2.5 it doesn’t work.

I tried:

Axolotl:.pow neil$ brew search python25
homebrew/versions/python25

Axolotl:.pow neil$ brew install python25
Error: No available formula for python25 
Axolotl:.pow neil$ brew install homebrew/versions/python25
Error: No available formula for python25

Where am I going wrong? Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    python25 is available in the Homebrew-versions tap:

    $ brew tap homebrew/versions
$ brew install python25
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