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Building Python from source

  1. Download the compressed source tarball from python.org by executing the following wget command:
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.9.18/Python-3.9.18.tgz
  1. Unpack the downloaded archive and navigate to the resulting directory:
tar -xvf Python-3.9.18.tgz
cd Python-3.9.18
  1. Configure the build process by executing the following command, specifying the desired installation prefix and enabling optimizations:
./configure --prefix=/home/nb/.python3.9 --enable-optimizations
  1. Compile the source code using the make command with parallel processing (e.g., using 8 threads):Compile the source code using the make command with parallel processing (e.g., using 8 threads):
make -j8
  1. Install the configured Python version system-wide, which may require administrative privileges:
sudo make altinstall
  1. Verify the successful installation by running Python and pip from the newly built version:
cd
./.python3.9/bin/python3.9
./.python3.9/bin/pip3.9
  1. Add the Python executable directory to your PATH environment variable for convenient access by modifying your .bashrc:
echo 'export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.python3.9/bin"' >> ~/.bashrc
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