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Install Python 3.10 on CentOS 7
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Install Python 3.10 on CentOS 7.md

Installing Python 3.10.6 on CentOS 7 (7-2009)

Prerequisites:

yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools"
yum -y install gcc openssl-devel bzip2-devel libffi-devel

Add another repo for openssl11

yum install epel-release

Install openssl11

yum install openssl11
yum install openssl11-devel

Go to python source

wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.10.6/Python-3.10.6.tar.xz
tar -xvf Python-3.10.6.tar.xz
cd Python-3.10.6

change python source to point to openssl11

sed -i 's/PKG_CONFIG openssl /PKG_CONFIG openssl11 /g' configure

compile and build Python (enable-shared is important for pyinstaller)

sudo ./configure --enable-optimizations --with-ensurepip=install --prefix=/usr/local --enable-shared LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath /usr/local/lib"

make -j8

make altinstall
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Inspired by https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69539286/how-to-compile-python3-on-rhel-with-ssl-ssl-cannot-be-imported

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vt107 commented Jan 12, 2024

Worked on centos 7. I love it!

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