CentOS 6 comes with Python 2.6 installed, and CentOS 7 comes with Python 2.7. But right now, Python 3.5 is all the rage, so I thought I’d install it alongside Python 2.x on the same machine.Here’s how I did it.I’m using a CentOS 6 32 bit system here, but I’ve tried the same on a CentOS 7 64 bit rig.
How-to install Python 3.6.1 on CentOS 7 13 July 2018 on python, linux, centos, development. This article is a revisit to a previous article dating back a little over an year, in which I installed Python 3.5.1 from sources. This time I will install Python 3.6.1 from a yum repository. Python PIP is a package manager for Python, just like Yum is a package manager for CentOS 7 and RHEL 7. In this article, I will show you how to install Python 2 PIP and Python 3 PIP on CentOS 7. Let’s get started. Pre-requisites: First update the package repository cache of yum package manager with the following command.
You need to be root or have superuser privileges to do this successfully.First, we’ll download the package from. Head over to the downloads section, then scroll to the bottom and find direct source links to both Python 2 and 3 at the bottom of the page. Wget we’ll extract the package: tar -Jxvf Python.This will give us a new directory, in my case it’s called Python-3.5.2 (depending on the current version number). Let’s cd into it and use configure and make to start our build: cd Python./configuremakeAnd finally, let’s install Python: make installIf you encounter any errors along the way, it’s likely that you’re missing some packages on the current system. Not to worry, the following should install what you need: yum install wget make gcc How do I use Python 3?Python 3 is now installed in /usr/local/bin, in my case as/usr/local/bin/python3.5. The exact path depends on the version number.
In addition, a symbolic link has been created as /usr/local/bin/python3.You can use your new Python version in shell scripts by starting your script with a she-bang referencing this version: #!/usr/local/bin/python3To youse Python 3 from the command line, make sure to execute the full path to it, or amend your shell accordingly. Can I still use Python 2?Yes you can, in fact CentOS depends on it.