Detailed tutorial on installing Python 3.8.1 on Linux

This example takes the installation of Python 3.8 on Linux as an example.

1. Dependency package installation

yum -y install zlib-devel bzip2-devel openssl-devel ncurses-devel sqlite-devel readline-devel tk-devel gdbm-devel db4-devel libpcap-devel xz-devel libffi-devel

2. Download package:

https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.8.1/

wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.8.1/Python-3.8.1.tgz

3. Decompression:

tar -zxvf Python-3.8.1.tgz

4. Installation:

cd Python-3.8.1
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/python3
make && make install

5. Establish soft connection

ln -s /usr/local/python3/bin/python3.8 /usr/bin/python3
ln -s /usr/local/python3/bin/pip3.8 /usr/bin/pip3

6. Verify whether the installation is successful

Execute python3 command

Execute pip3 command

If the above commands produce the results shown in the figure, the installation is successful.

Summarize

The above is a detailed tutorial on how to install Python 3.8.1 on Linux introduced by the editor. I hope it will be helpful to everyone!