Install Python3.7 in ubuntu 16.04
1 min readJul 25, 2018
Installing steps for python3.7
# Install requirements
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential
sudo apt-get install -y checkinstall
sudo apt-get install -y libreadline-gplv2-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libncursesw5-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libsqlite3-dev
sudo apt-get install -y tk-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libgdbm-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libc6-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libbz2-dev
sudo apt-get install -y zlib1g-dev
sudo apt-get install -y openssl
sudo apt-get install -y libffi-dev
sudo apt-get install -y python3-dev
sudo apt-get install -y python3-setuptools
sudo apt-get install -y wget# Prepare to build
mkdir /tmp/Python37
cd /tmp/Python37# Pull down Python 3.7, build, and install
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.0/Python-3.7.0.tar.xz
tar xvf Python-3.7.0.tar.xz
cd /tmp/Python37/Python-3.7.0
./configure --enable-optimizations
sudo make altinstall
