Installation of Python 3.x (specific version) on CentOS 7

This Blog will help you for installation of up and running with a local Python 3.x programming environment in CentOS 7.x.

The programming language Python was conceived in the late 1980s and its implementation was started in December 1989. Python 3.0 (also called “Python 3000” or “Py3K”) was released on December 3, 2008. Python 3 is the most current version of the language and is considered to be the future of Python.

Prerequisites Computer with CentOS 7.x installed with non-root superuser account that is connected to the internet. Note: Here we have used Amazon Linux AMI [CentOS 7 image]

Step 1 : Set-up installation for Python3.6.2

Note: We can install any of python version 3.x, download it from here. In this blog we are installing python version 3.6.2.

Go to ‘/usr/src’ path

    cd /usr/src

Download python version 3.6.2.

    sudo wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.6.2/Python-3.6.2.tar.xz

untar downloaded package

    sudo tar -xvf Python-3.6.2.tar.xz

Go to ‘Python-3.6.2’ path

    cd Python-3.6.2

Installation of gcc compiler and openssl-devel

    sudo yum install gcc

    sudo yum install openssl-devel

Configuration of python

    sudo ./configure --prefix=/opt/python3

    sudo make altinstall

    sudo ln -s /opt/python3/bin/python3.6 /usr/bin/python3.6

Check installation

python3.6 --version

Congratulations!! We have made it Successful..

COOL let’s write Simple Hello World Python Program [click here]

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