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Install pyenv on Ubuntu 18.04 + fish shell
- Install the packages required to compile Python
$ sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends make build-essential libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev wget curl llvm libncurses5-dev xz-utils tk-dev libxml2-dev libxmlsec1-dev libffi-dev liblzma-dev
- Download pyenv code from github
$ git clone https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv.git ~/.pyenv
- Define environment variable PYENV_ROOT to point to the path where pyenv repo is cloned
$ echo "set --export PYENV_ROOT $HOME/.pyenv" > ~/.config/fish/conf.d/pyenv.fish