[Python-Dev] Needs to install python 3.4.4 in RHEL 6 (original) (raw)

Zachary Ware zachary.ware+pydev at gmail.com
Thu Apr 28 11:38:22 EDT 2016

Hi Nilesh,

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 7:00 AM, Nilesh Date <nileshdate1990 at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi team,

I wanted to install python version 3.4.4 in my RHEL 6 system. Can someone give installation process or any reference link from which I can get required steps and download desire package.

You have a couple of options.

Option 1: use software collections [1]. As I vaguely understand it (having never used this myself), the rh-python34 package is supported by Red Hat, and is like any other package for the most part. Looking at that page it does look a bit more complex than option 2 to me, but I've built and installed Python several times over the past few years :)

Option 2: compile and install yourself. At a minimum, you'll need a c compiler (gcc, icc, or clang are recommended), and development headers for any extension modules that you require (I'd recommend openssl-devel and readline-devel at the least). Then download the source [2], extract it, and run cd Python-3.4.4 && ./configure && make profile-opt && make test && sudo make install. That series of commands will give you python installed in /usr/local/ that has been compiled with profile-guided optimization (PGO) and has passed the full Python test suite. If any but the last step fails, nothing will have changed on your system.

[1] https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/rh-python34/ [2] https://www.python.org/downloads/source/

Hope this helps,

Zach

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