You can create your virtualenv using pyvenv: python3.6 -m venv /tmp/foo

Sudo yum install -y python36 python36-pip With CentOS7, pip3.6 is provided as a package :) sudo yum install -y epel-release You can create your virtualenv using pyvenv: pyvenv /tmp/foo Sudo yum install -y python34-setuptools # install easy_install-3.4

How to install Python 3.4 on CentOS 6 sudo yum install -y epel-release Red Hat has added through the EPEL repository: If you work in a cloud environment with multiple VMs, compiling python3 on each VMs is not acceptable.

you can install and uninstall (properly) python3.

Hope this helps you.Installing from RPM is generally better, because: In case you face errors in building/compilation, and want to start again from scratch, make sure to clean source using below commands. Whenever you want to install pip package, make sure to specify exact pip version. python3.8 get-pip.pyĬheck if pip is installed properly pip3 -version Run this script using python executable we setup just now. Now let’s setup pip for this installation. Below is my /etc/ld.so.confafter appending directory name. Now open /etc/ld.so.conf in your favourite editor and append the path of directory of above file to it. root/Python-3.8.3/libpython3.8.so.1.0įirst file is where my source is. (Replace 3.8.3 with your version) find / -name libpython3.8.so.1.0 To do this, first find the location of newly generated shared library. make altinstallīecause we used flag ‘ –enabled-shared‘, we have to add links to newly created shared libraries. This will take care of not messing existing Python installation. IMPORTANT: Don’t use ‘ install‘ but use ‘ altinstall‘. configure -prefix=/usr/local -enable-shared –enabled-shared To make share shared libraries are build for this version. –prefix Determines where to keep installation files wget Įxtract tarball and go to root directory tar -xf Python-3.8.3.tar.xzĬonfigure the source. Grab Python tarball of version your required. Update system and install basic development environment yum update -y Just make sure to update source link accordingly. But you can apply these steps for any version. We are installing the latest Python version 3.8.3 here. In this quick tutorial, we will see how to install python from source. Many times we end up with machine having older version of Python, especially CentOS.

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