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Compiling Python from source on Ubuntu
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Basic guide

Pooled together from maybe several place(s) on the web that I can't remember:

sudo apt install libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev tk-dev libgdbm-dev libdb5.3-dev libbz2-dev libexpat1-dev liblzma-dev libffi-dev uuid-dev
./configure --prefix="$SOME_DIRECTORY" --enable-optimizations --with-ensurepip=install

Some additional notes

  • There may be other build dependencies that I already had installed.
  • Check the build log to see if any modules failed to build. If they do, search around to find the build dependencies required.
  • I had an issue while where binascii wouldn't build. This was due to not cleaning the build directory between a failed build and installing more dependencies: make clean fixed this.
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