Simple script for installing python 3.8 on environments *.nix

install_py3.8.sh

#!/bin/bash
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# First relase 18 Sep 2015
# A simple script who help to install a devel enviroment on nix system, it works without root permissions
# dependencies: 
# RH, Centos, Fedora
# yum install bzip2-devel ncurses-devel gdbm-devel sqlite-devel readline-devel xz-devel zlib-devel openssl-devel libxslt-devel libxml2-devel
# Debian/Ubuntu
# apt install libffi-dev uuid-dev libgdbm-compat-dev libbz2-dev libncurses-dev libgdbm-dev libsqlite3-dev libreadline-dev liblzma-dev zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libxslt1-dev libxml2-dev
# updated 7 Oct 2015 - Add BSD License
# updated 23 Oct 2019 - Add Version 3.8.0
# updated 29 Apr 2020 - Add list of dependencies and update to 3.8.2
PYTHON_VERSION=3.8.2
INSTALL_DIR=$HOME/.local/tmp;
DEVEL_DIR=$HOME/Devel/python;
VIRTUAL_DIR=$HOME/.virtualenvs
LAST_STABLE_PYTHON=Python-$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/$PYTHON_VERSION/$LAST_STABLE_PYTHON;
tar -xvzf Python-$PYTHON_VERSION.tgz;
cd Python-$PYTHON_VERSION;
./configure --prefix=$LOCAL_DIR;
make; make install;

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

# setting variables in bash_profile
echo "export PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:\$PATH" >> ~/.bash_profile;
echo "export VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PYTHON=$HOME/.local/bin/python" >> ~/.bash_profile;
echo "export WORKON_HOME=$VIRTUAL_DIR" >> ~/.bash_profile;
echo "export PROJECT_HOME=$DEVEL_DIR" >> ~/.bash_profile;

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

April 2020

wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/paridin/7599f90f0abe55926a5c/raw/ab668c7a6fb07279a2b313a5ad8c0e87a3a4e7b7/install_py3.8.sh
bash install_py3.8.sh
source ~/.bash_profile