Python 3.6.9 is the latest stable version at the time of writing of tutorial. This Python version is available to download and install. This article will help you to install Python 3.6.9 on Ubuntu and Linuxmint operating system. To know more about this version visit Python official website.
Step 1 – Prerequsities
Use the following command to install prerequisites for Python before proceeding to the next steps.
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 3.6
Download Python using following command from python official site. You can also download the latest version in place of specified below.
cd /usr/src sudo wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.6.9/Python-3.6.9.tgz
Now extract the downloaded package.
sudo tar xzf Python-3.6.9.tgz
Step 3 – Compile Python Source
Now use below set of commands to compile Python source code on your system. We use --enable-optimizations option with configure command to enable additional supports like SSL, bz2 support. With make command altinstall, to install it as separate Python, This will not overwrite the existing installation.
cd Python-3.6.9 sudo ./configure --enable-optimizations sudo make altinstall
Step 4 – Check the Python Version
Finally, you have successfully installed Python 3.6 on your system. Let’s check the version installed of python using the below command.
python3.6 -V Python 3.6.9
This will also configure PIP for you to install Python modules.
pip3.6 -V pip 9.0.1 from /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (python 3.6)
Thank you, it works well!
Does this work on Raspberry Pi 3 B+?
I found the following error:
The directory ‘/home/haftom/.cache/pip/http’ or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and the cache has been disabled. Please check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo’s -H flag.
The directory ‘/home/haftom/.cache/pip’ or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and caching wheels has been disabled. check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo’s -H flag.
Did you ever find a resolution to this?
thanks a lot bro . i just didn’t know who i would start
Thanks a bunch! Worked like a charm
It was helpfully. Very easy. First, I installed Python3.6.1 from cd installer on my pc ,ubuntu 16.04, then process stopped . There were some errors.
I tried using this tutorial . Works !
Thanks a lot
I can’t thank you enough, this was very helpful, god bless!
I have installed python 3.6.6 successfully on ubuntu 14.04 but PyCharm is not detecting 3.6 as an interpreter.
Can you please help me with same?
Thank’s very much brother!!!
Good luck!!
Hi Rahul than you for sharing. I setup successfully python 3.6.6 on my pc, because of you , but I can not setup python idle 3.6.6 . When I try setup idle , it was for python 3.6.6 . How I can fix this problem.