I wanted my own local copy of Python that I could install Python packages to without interfering with anything else. Hope this helps you.I wanted to install the latest Python on Linux in a low powered user’s home directory and not have the install interfere with the Python that comes with Linux. 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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