The latest release of the python scripting language is Python 3.2.3.
But CentOS 6 only comes with 2.6 not event the latest 2.7!
# Install required build dependencies
yum install gcc make openssl-devel bzip2-devel expat-devel gdbm-devel readline-devel sqlite-devel# Download the latest source code package
wget http://python.org/ftp/python/3.2.3/Python-3.2.3.tgz# Uncompress
tar xzvf Python-3.2.3.tgz cd Python-3.2.3# Configure with prefix (install dir) to /opt/python3
./configure --prefix=/opt/python3# Compile, Install and Make link
make sudo make install# ln -s /opt/python3/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python3# Verify the installation
/opt/python3/bin/python3
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ReplyDeleteThanks! If you leave both installs of python on there then just have to remember to run as python3 a the shell and !# /usr/bin/python in the script.
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