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... of course it will work. And there's no compilation step involved, either, as I've never encountered a Debian package that was not a binary distribution (but maybe there are some, requiring build-essential? This package surely does not depend on build-essential).

I'll run this on a clean Ubuntu instance and if this works I'll update my post! Thanks!!

yes, that's really all you need. I've just tried on a couple of different versions of ubuntu, and it worked on them all.

If you find a version of ubuntu or debian where that doesn't work, file a bug!

Worked for me when I did it on Debain Squeeze. I later ended up uninstalling the apt-get version and install the newer version from pipy via pip.

Interesting - so would this not have worked for my Ubuntu ami instance or my Ubuntu home machine?

I can't speak for Ubuntu, but it's supposed to be reasonably stable and there is absolutely no reason to believe that package installation for this sort of software would differ between machines.

Works just fine on Ubuntu.