Can't build tools on Ubuntu 24.04 due to dependency on python 2.7

[waveywhite]

I tried building the Kaldi tools on Ubuntu 24.04 using the following method:

1. clone https://github.com/kaldi-asr/kaldi
2. cd kaldi/tools
3. run make
4. install requested dependencies
5. run make again to build

However, I came unstuck on the python2.7 dependency. I found that this is not available from the standard Ubuntu repositories or on a 3rd party PPA. Other linux distributions have dropped or are dropping python 2.7 imminently.

Please could the version of python required be bumped up to python 3.x