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Prerequirements

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install apt-rdepends

Get the stuff needed for compiling

sudo apt-get install `apt-rdepends python3 | grep ^lib`
sudo apt-get install `apt-rdepends python3-dev | grep ^lib`
sudo apt-get install python3-dev
sudo apt-get install python-dev libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev libncurses-dev ncurses-dev
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt-dev python-dev  # https://github.com/designerror/webdav-client-python
sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev python-pycurl  # https://github.com/designerror/webdav-client-python
cd ~
mkdir -p software/python3.5/ && cd software/python3.5/

Get Download link

Official Python Download page gave me the Gzipped source tarball link https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.5.1/Python-3.5.1.tgz

Download python

wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.5.1/Python-3.5.1.tgz

tar xvzf Python-*.tgz
cd Python-*

Compile

./configure --prefix=/opt/python3.5
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