By Bobby Iliev
In some cases, you might need to install a very specific Python version on your Ubuntu server which might be different from the one that comes from the default apt repositories.
Here is how you could do that!
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This is going to be beyond the scope of the tutorial. However here is how you could install a specific version if needed:
First, install the required libraries:
- sudo apt-get install libssl-dev openssl make gcc
Then choose the specific Python from here:
https://www.python.org/ftp/python/
After that go to the /opt directory and download the archive of the specific version:
- cd /opt
- wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.9.2/Python-3.9.2.tgz
Extract the archive:
- tar xzvf Python-3.9.2.tgz
Then cd into the directory:
- cd Python-3.9.2
And finally, compile the new version:
- ./configure
- make
- make install
Finally you can create a symlink for that specific Python version so that you could use the binary from anywhere:
- sudo ln -fs /opt/Python-3.9.2/Python /usr/bin/python3.9
Then you could check if the python3.9 version is available:
- python3.9 --version
Hope that this helps. Regards, Bobby
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