Step 1 – Prerequsities
Use the following command to install prerequisites for Python before proceeding to the next steps.
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall
$ sudo apt-get install libreadline-gplv2-dev libncursesw5-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev tk-dev libgdbm-dev libc6-dev libbz2-dev
Step 2 – Download Python 3.6
Download Python using following command from python official site. You can also download the latest version in place of specified below.
$ cd /usr/src
$ sudo wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.6.5/Python-3.6.5.tgz
Now extract the downloaded package.
$ sudo tar xzf Python-3.6.5.tgz
Step 3 – Compile Python Source
Now use below set of commands to compile Python source code on your system. We use --enable-optimizations option with configure command to enable additional supports like SSL, bz2 support. With make command altinstall, to install it as separate Python, This will not overwrite the existing installation.
$ cd Python-3.6.5
$ sudo ./configure --enable-optimizations
$ sudo make altinstall
make altinstall is used to prevent replacing the default python binary file /usr/bin/python.
Step 4 – Check the Python Version
Finally, you have successfully installed Python 3.6 on your system. Let’s check the version installed of python using the below command.
$ python3.6 -V
Python 3.6.5
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