This article will help you to install Python 2.7.13 on your Ubuntu, Debian and LinuxMint operating systems. At writing time of this article Python 3.4.5 latest stable version is available to download and install. To install Python 3.4.5 visit following article.
Install Required Packages
Use the following command to install prerequisites for Python before installing it.
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall $ sudo apt-get install libreadline-gplv2-dev libncursesw5-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev tk-dev libgdbm-dev libc6-dev libbz2-dev
Download Python 2.7.13
Download Python using following command from python official site. You can also download latest version in place of specified below.
$ cd /usr/src $ wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.13/Python-2.7.13.tgz
Now extract the downloaded package.
$ tar xzf Python-2.7.13.tgz
Compile Python Source
Use below set of commands to compile python source code on your system using altinstall.
$ cd Python-2.7.13 $ sudo ./configure $ sudo make altinstall
Step 4: Check the Python Version
Check the latest version installed of python using below command
#python2.7 -V Python 2.7.13
I followed instructions on Linux Mint Cinnamon 17.3 and ended up with latest python, but missing crucial modules like datetime and time.
Thanks for the article.
i would suggest running sudo apt-get update
before running the first two commands
If you are on Linux you will most likely need to add
–enable-unicode=ucs4
to the arguments of ./configure to keep it consistent with the ‘standard’ builds.
I get
E: Unable to locate package checkinstall
Thank you…. great!!
Thank you so much!
Great this was very helpful. One issues i found. I believe you need to run a: ‘sudo make’ command and allow that to run before you run the sudo make altinstall command.
Otherwise worked perfectly for me.