If it is possible to install Python 3.8.1 on RHEL 8 with dnf, please advise.
I don’t want to use Python 3.6, I want to use Python 3.8.1. I don’t know why IBM hates Python, I don’t know why Redhat hates Python.
The SCL repo has forever been out of date with languages (java, python , node).
IBM/Redhat has vast resources where they could put Python 3.8.1 on a repo somewhere such that it would be easy to install Python like so:
dnf install python38
but they don’t because they hate Python for the freedoms it has.
tomboi
February 12, 2020, 8:08pm
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Hey @DevLocalCA ,
Not possible until and unless you get CentOS rolling release called CentOS streams. Is that what you want? If you are using CentOS 8 stable, there is no way to install it using the dnf/yum command.
Install compilers, run it as the root
dnf groupinstall 'development tools'
dnf install bzip2-devel expat-devel gdbm-devel ncurses-devel openssl-devel readline-devel sqlite-devel tk-devel xz-devel zlib-devel wget
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.8.1/Python-3.8.1.tgz
tar -xvf Python-3.8.1.tgz
cd Python*
./configure --enable-optimizations
make -j $(proc)
sudo make altinstall
Verify new version:
python3.8 --version
