Download the Source code
Use wget:
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.8.1/Python-3.8.1.tar.xz
or your borwser: python.org.
tar -xf Python-3.8.1.tar.xz
cd Python-3.8.1
./configure --prefix /opt/python-3-8-1
make -j 4
make install
Compile python on old Centos
yum install -y wget
yum install -y gcc
yum install -y libffi-devel
yum install -y zlib-devel
yum install -y openssl-devel
yum install -y readline-devel
yum install -y sqlite-devel
yum install -y bzip2-devel
yum install -y xz-devel
yum install -y uuid-devel
yum install -y make net-snmp net-snmp-utils net-snmp-libs net-snmp-devel
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.2/Python-3.7.2.tgz
Install:
tar xzf Python-3.7.2.tgz
cd Python-3.7.2
./configure --prefix=/opt/python372
make
make install
Update ~/.bashrc:
export PATH=/opt/python372/bin:$PATH
reload bashrc:
source .bashrc
Verify:
/opt/python372/bin/python3 --version
which python3
Check if pip3 is installed (this should print /opt/python372/bin/pip3):
which pip3
If pip3 is not installed, then install pip:
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
/opt/python372/bin/python3 get-pip.py
rm get-pip.py
