Compile Python From Source for centos / rhel / fedora

Dockerfile

FROM centos:latest

USER root

# We separate update as this step takes too long
RUN  yum -y update

RUN yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools" && \
  yum -y install gcc openssl-devel bzip2-devel libffi-devel && \
  yum -y install wget

ENV PATH="/apps/Python-3.9.5/bin:${PATH}"

RUN mkdir /apps && \
	cd /tmp && \
	wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.9.5/Python-3.9.5.tgz && \
  tar xzvf Python-3.9.5.tgz && \
  cd /tmp/Python-3.9.5 && \
  ./configure --enable-optimizations --with-ensurepip=install --prefix=/apps/Python-3.9.5 && \
  make && \
  make install