#Python 3 install ubuntu linux how to

Depends on your CPU, you may increase the number or just skip it.Īfter installation, verify via python3.10 -V command. Here -j4 will start 4 threads to speed up the job.

configure -enable-optimizationsįinally compile and install it into “/usr/local/bin”: sudo make altinstall -j4

When you’re in source directory, run command to configure the source with expensive, stable optimizations (PGO, etc.). You may right-click on the folder and choose ‘ Open in Terminal‘ instead of running cd command. The command varies depends on which Python version you downloaded. Next, download the source package by running the wget command in terminal: wget -c įor other Python version, go and download via web browser in this page.Īnd uncompress the tarball either by right-click and selecting ‘ Extract Here‘ in file manager, or by running command in terminal: tar -Jxf Python-3.10.0.tar.xzĪfter extracted the source, go to new generated folder via command: cd Python-3.10.0/ When it opens, run the command below to install the dependencies: sudo apt install wget build-essential libreadline-dev libncursesw5-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev tk-dev libgdbm-dev libc6-dev libbz2-dev libffi-dev zlib1g-dev Open terminal either by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard or by searching from start menu. Preparation:īefore getting started, you need to install some essential packages for building the computer language package. For Ubuntu 21.10, Python 3.10 will be soon made into the universe repository, so you may skip or install a certain version (e.g., 3.8 or 3.7) via this tutorial.

NOTE: Ubuntu 21.04 has Python 3.10 beta1 in universe repository, remove it if installed before doing the steps below. For non-LTS releases, e.g., Ubuntu 21.04 and Ubuntu 21.10, you may build the programming language package manually from the source tarball.

#Python 3 install ubuntu linux how to

This simple tutorial shows how to compile and install Python 3.10.0 or other certain Python version in Ubuntu.įor Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, there’s well trusted “deadsnakes” team PPA that maintains all the Python packages.