How To Install Python 3.5 on Ubuntu & LinuxMint

This article will help you to install Python 3.5.9 on Ubuntu, Debian, and Linuxmint operating system. To know more about this version visit Python official website.

Step 1 – Prerequisites

You must have fulfilled all the prerequisites for installing Python on Ubuntu, Debian and Linuxmint. Use the following command to install all the prerequisites. After that go for the Python installation on Ubuntu.

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

Step 2 – Download Python 3.5

Download Python source code archive from its official download website. You can also download Python 3.5 version using the following commands.

cd /usr/src
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.5.9/Python-3.5.9.tgz

Now extract the downloaded archive on your system.

sudo tar xzf Python-3.5.9.tgz

Step 3 – Install Python on Linux

Use below set of commands to compile Python source code on your system using altinstall. This will install Python on an Ubuntu and LinuxMint system.

cd Python-3.5.9
sudo ./configure --enable-optimizations
sudo make altinstall

make altinstall is used to prevent replacing the default python binary file /usr/bin/python.

Step 4 – Check the Python Version

You have successfully installed Python on Linux. Check the Python version installed using the command:

python3.5 -V

Python 3.5.9

21 Comments

sverx on May 4, 2021 5:16 pm
Thanks! I needed Python3.5 on my Linux Mint 20.1 but it just comes with 3.8 and 3.9
Since I also needed the libpython3.5m.so.1.0 file, I had to
sudo ./configure –enable-shared –enable-optimizations
Sanjay on November 28, 2020 10:56 am
How to install virtual environment for newly installed python3.5. My goal is to install TensorFlow using Python3.5 not with the default Python3.8
Do i have to specify Python3.5 instead of Python3? Because in Ubuntu 20.04 Python3 indicate to default Python3.8.
sudo apt install -y python3.5-venv
python3.5 -m venv my_env
Please correct me if i am wrong.
Thomas on November 6, 2020 9:26 am
Thank you so much!
Really useful guidance.
Libby on October 20, 2020 11:21 pm
Thanks so much this was easy to follow and i found to work successfully for me!
Sanjay on September 13, 2020 6:35 am
After successful installation, it does not show in
update-alternatives –list python
- Rahul on September 14, 2020 3:15 am
  Do not change default Python version of system. It may break multiple commands.
Sanjay on September 13, 2020 6:34 am
How do we uninstall?
Saran on June 2, 2020 9:07 pm
Fixed lot of bugs….! Thank you
Yair on April 27, 2020 3:51 am
thanks bro you help me
Name on July 31, 2019 4:43 pm
This article is shit.
say10 on May 5, 2019 12:00 am
thanks a lot, great tutorial
Miracles Happen on April 26, 2019 1:17 am
Excellent! I just followed your clear instructions and now it’s installed. Thank you!
Tom on February 22, 2019 9:44 pm
Super helpful, wasn’t sure how to make this work from the python site, thx!!!
Katya on December 19, 2018 6:18 pm
Thank you! It worked!
Magda on July 26, 2018 7:53 am
Finally succeeded to install Python3.5. Thanks for the article!
Kryone on May 30, 2018 8:18 am
but how do u run it? i cant open it. it just opens the archive mounter. there’s no application thing or anything like that.
Kryone on May 30, 2018 8:15 am
but how do u run it? i cant open it. it just opens the archive mounter
ahmad on February 10, 2018 12:00 pm
very helpful Thanks
Respect from Lhr,Pak
Khurrum on March 26, 2017 5:04 am
Thank you so much for the useful guidance.
- Shubhanshu on July 8, 2017 10:26 pm
  sudo apt-get install software-properties-common python-software-properties
  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fkrull/deadsnakes
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install python3.5
  This is better.
  - bux on March 26, 2018 9:34 am
    Not work on last ubuntu: fkrull/deadsnakes don’t support las distribs