Answer by Nick T for How do I install the latest Python 2.7.X or 3.X on Ubuntu?
Mostly a mirror of this answer with a tweaked introI would recommend pyenv. It automates the build process aside from installing the header dependencies (see below). You can build and install a new (or...
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You can also download and install it via pyenv#Install Pyenvgit clone https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv.git ~/.pyenvexport PATH=~/.pyenv/bin:/usr/local/hadoop/bin/:$PATHecho 'export...
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Continuing to document this for the latest Ubuntu releases1 : for Ubuntu 16.04.1 server, the default Python is version 3.5, and Python 2.7 is not installed by default. On a fresh install (note that...
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12.04If you are following Achu's answer, then the term libread5-dev should be changed to libreadline-gplv2-dev. So the full command would be:sudo apt-get install libreadline-gplv2-dev libncursesw5-dev...
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Unless you really have a burning desire to compile it yourself, the preferred way is to use the DeadSnakes PPA to install versions of Python that aren't included by default:sudo add-apt-repository...
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First, install some dependencies:sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstallsudo apt-get install libreadline-gplv2-dev libncursesw5-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev tk-dev libgdbm-dev libc6-dev...
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I want to install the latest Python tarball on Ubuntu, downloaded from http://python.org/download/.Is this is a correct way to install?./configuremakemake installIf not, how do I do that?
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