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How to install a new version of python on the raspberry pi
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Install the packages for compiling $ sudo apt-get install -y build-essential tk-dev libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev libreadline6-dev libdb5.3-dev libgdbm-dev libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev libbz2-dev libexpat1-dev liblzma-dev zlib1g-dev libffi-dev wget

Set the python version you want $ version=3.8.5

Download $ wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/$version/Python-$version.tgz ~/

Extract the file $ tar zxf ~/Python-$version.tgz

CD into the dir $ cd ~/Python-$version

Configure $ ./configure --enable-optimizations

Compile $ make -j4

Install $ sudo make altinstall

Clean up $ sudo apt-get remove build-essential tk-dev libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev libreadline6-dev libdb5.3-dev libgdbm-dev libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev libbz2-dev libexpat1-dev liblzma-dev zlib1g-dev libffi-dev

Remove remenants $ sudo rm -r ~/Python-$version.tgz ~/Python-$version

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