https://naoko.github.io/tags/3.7/Recent content in 3.7 on the art of simplicityHugoen-usFri, 14 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://naoko.github.io/posts/2018-10-15-how-to-install-python-ubuntu/Mon, 15 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://naoko.github.io/posts/2018-10-15-how-to-install-python-ubuntu/<p>Check the latest version <a href="https://www.python.org/">here</a> At the time of writing, 3.8.0 is the latest and 3.8.5 has release candidate.</p> <p>Also make sure you have sqlite3, libbz2-dev and libffi-dev are installed</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#282a36;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span style="display:flex;"><span>sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev libbz2-dev libffi-dev </span></span></code></pre></div><div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#282a36;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#8be9fd;font-style:italic">version</span><span style="color:#ff79c6">=</span>3.8.5 </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/<span style="color:#f1fa8c">${</span><span style="color:#8be9fd;font-style:italic">version</span><span style="color:#f1fa8c">}</span>/Python-<span style="color:#f1fa8c">${</span><span style="color:#8be9fd;font-style:italic">version</span><span style="color:#f1fa8c">}</span>.tgz </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>tar xzvf Python-<span style="color:#f1fa8c">${</span><span style="color:#8be9fd;font-style:italic">version</span><span style="color:#f1fa8c">}</span>.tgz </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#8be9fd;font-style:italic">cd</span> Python-<span style="color:#f1fa8c">${</span><span style="color:#8be9fd;font-style:italic">version</span><span style="color:#f1fa8c">}</span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#6272a4"># Linux (or any Unix-like system), the default prefix and exec-prefix are /usr/local.</span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#6272a4"># thus you should be able to omit --prefix here</span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#6272a4"># --enable-optimizations option for significant speed boost (10-20%) but much</span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#6272a4"># slower build process</span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>./configure --prefix /usr/local --enable-optimizations </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>make </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>sudo make install </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#6272a4"># OR if you want to skip creating the python link then:</span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>sudo make altinstall </span></span></code></pre></div><p>in case you want to remove and re-install it again cause some software was missing before installation</p>