At the writing time of this article Python 3.7.8 latest stable version of 3.7 series is available to install. This article will help you to install Python 3.7.8 on Ubuntu and LinuxMint operating system. You can visit here to read more about Python releases.
Prerequisites
It is an good practice to keep packages up to date. So, first of all upgrade current packages on your system by running following commands.
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
Then, Use the following command to install prerequisites for Python before installing it.
sudo apt-get install wget build-essential checkinstall sudo apt-get install libreadline-gplv2-dev libncursesw5-dev libssl-dev \ libsqlite3-dev tk-dev libgdbm-dev libc6-dev libbz2-dev libffi-dev zlib1g-dev
Step 1 – Download Python 3.7
Download Python using following command from python official site. You can also download latest version in place of specified below.
cd /usr/src sudo wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.8/Python-3.7.8.tgz
After finishing the downloading, extract the archive file.
sudo tar xzf Python-3.7.8.tgz
Step 2 – Install Python 3.7
Use below set of commands to compile Python source code on your system using altinstall.
cd Python-3.7.8 sudo ./configure --enable-optimizations sudo make altinstall
Step 3 – Check Python Version
Check the latest version installed of python using below command
python3.7 -V Python-3.7.8
Conclusion
This tutorial helps you to install Python 3.7 on your Ubuntu, Debian and Linuxmint systems.
Hi Rahul,
this is very helpful! thanks a lot.
One small input: on my system, I didnt have wget installed. Maybe adding the command sudo apt install wget would make this post even better.
Cheers,
Jan
Thanks Jan, Added command to install wget.
A big “Thank you!” Rahul for your very clean and complete description that has reliably installed Python 3.7 on my Ubuntu 18.10.
3.7.7 onboard and running.
Thank you so much.
so helpfull
Thank you so much! That worked great.
Installing works fine, but what if I want to unistall it (altinstall)? make unistall does not work 🙁
I guys, thank u for this tutorial.
i’m new user of Python.
Need to install Python 3.7 on Ubuntu, which version of the OS would you racommend?
thank for you help
where exacly I can find the python3.7.4 interpreter
very helpful!
Hi All,
I m getting the below error while trying to compile python 3.7.4 . I m using openssl version OpenSSL 1.0.2o.
My config command : ./configure –enable-optimizations –with-ensurepip=install –with-openssl=/usr/local/openssl/
*** WARNING: renaming “_ssl” since importing it failed: libssl.so.1.0.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
*** WARNING: renaming “_hashlib” since importing it failed: libssl.so.1.0.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Python build finished successfully!
The necessary bits to build these optional modules were not found:
_lzma _tkinter _uuid
readline
To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the module’s name.
The following modules found by detect_modules() in setup.py, have been
built by the Makefile instead, as configured by the Setup files:
_abc atexit pwd
time
Following modules built successfully but were removed because they could not be imported:
_hashlib _ssl
Could not build the ssl module!
Python requires an OpenSSL 1.0.2 or 1.1 compatible libssl with X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_host().
LibreSSL 2.6.4 and earlier do not provide the necessary APIs, https://github.com/libressl-portable/portable/issues/381
I had the same issue. Solved it by installing the SSL development package (libssl-dev on Mint, probably same on Debian/Ubuntu). Take a look at this SO answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/44758621/9698048
Hi RAJARAJAN,
the problem here is, that openssl must be compiled with CFLAGS=-fPIC, otherwise python won’t compile it.
Details: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28234300/usr-local-ssl-lib-libcrypto-a-could-not-read-symbols-bad-value
Pavol