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Created May 1, 2017 06:58
Build Python 3.6 from source for Ubuntu and Debian
Prerequisties install:
- sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall
These are the dependancies required by python:
- sudo apt-get install libbz2-dev libc6-dev libgdbm-dev libncursesw5-dev libreadline-gplv2-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev tk-dev
Download the tar source file from python.org (at the time of writing 3.6.1 is the latest release):
- wget -O ~/Downloads/python3.6.1.tgz https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.6.1/Python-3.6.1.tgz
Via command line navigate to the downloaded file directory: