a simple script for install python3.7 on *nix systems

install_py3.7.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Copyright (c) 2015, Roberto Estrada
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# First relase 27 Aug 2015
# A simple script who help to install a devel enviroment on nix system, it works without root permissions
# dependencies/pre requisites: 
# yum install openssl openssl-devel 
# (RH, Centos, Fedora)
# yum group install "Development Tools"
# yum install libxslt-devel libxml2-devel
# yum install bzip2-devel ncurses-devel gdbm-devel sqlite-devel readline-devel xz-devel zlib-devel openssl-devel libxslt-devel libxml2-devel libjpeg-turbo
# (Debian/Ubuntu)
# sudo apt install libssl-dev openssl 
# sudo apt install build-essential
# sudo apt install libncurses5-dev libbz2-dev libgdbm-dev lzma-dev liblzma-dev libsqlite3-dev libreadline-dev
# sudo apt install tk-dev # only if you want develop with tk
# updated 7 Oct 2015 - Add BSD License
# updated 24 Sep 2017 - To work with docker.
# updated 5 Sep 2018 - To python 3.7.0
# SETUP
VERSION=3.7.0
INSTALL_DIR=$HOME/.local/tmp;
DEVEL_DIR=$HOME/Devel/python;
VIRTUAL_DIR=$HOME/.virtualenvs
LAST_STABLE_PYTHON=Python-${VERSION}.tgz
LOCAL_DIR=$HOME/.local
mkdir -p $INSTALL_DIR $DEVEL_DIR;
cd  $INSTALL_DIR;

# get last version of python and install it
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${VERSION}/${LAST_STABLE_PYTHON}
tar -xvzf Python-${VERSION}.tgz
cd Python-${VERSION}
./configure --prefix=$LOCAL_DIR --enable-shared --enable-optimizations
make -j8 build_all
make -j8 install

# linking python3 as python for easy control
cd $LOCAL_DIR/bin
ln -s python3 python
cd -

# INSTALL

# setting variables in bash_profile
# virtualenv was removed since we can use venv or pipenv to work with virtual envs the pipenv had a lot improvements
echo "export PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:\$PATH" >> ~/.bash_profile
echo "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/.local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" >> ~/.bash_profile
echo "export VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PYTHON=$HOME/.local/bin/python" >> ~/.bash_profile
echo "export WORKON_HOME=$VIRTUAL_DIR" >> ~/.bash_profile
echo "export PROJECT_HOME=$DEVEL_DIR" >> ~/.bash_profile

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/.local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

cd -
# cleaning tmps
rm -rf $INSTALL_DIR/*
source ~/.bash_profile

Install

wget http://bit.ly/install_py3_6_2 -O install_py3.6.sh
bash install_py3.6.sh
source ~/.bash_profile