Press Y key to accept the download and installation. However, we are going to use the dnf because it is the future of package manager of theses Linux OS. It can be installed using the dnf or yum command. The standard repository for RHEL 8.0 provides Python 3.6. NOTE: If you see the error while loading shared libraries: libpython3.8.so.1.Summary of Python setup Add Python 3.6 to RHEL 8/CentOS 8/Stream

Change the permissions of the libpython3.8.so files as follows:.

The -no-clobber option is used to prevent overwriting of files.

Copy the shared compiled library files (libpython3.8.so) to the /lib64/ directory:Ĭp -no-clobber.

Run the following command to place the compiled files in the default location or in the custom location that you specified using the -prefix option:.

Run the make command to compile the files:.

The -enabled-shared option is used to build a shared library instead of a static library. If you are installing Python 3.8 in any other location, then you must specify the path using the -prefix option. configure -enable-shared -prefix=īy default, Python can be installed in any one of the following locations:

If you are installing to a custom location, run the following command:.

If you are installing to the standard location, run the following command.

Run one of the following command to start installing Python 3.8 Change directory to where you decompressed the Python 3.8 package: cd /temp/Python-3.8.12ģ.

Download Python 3.8 and decompress the package by running the following commands:Ĭd /temp curl -O tar -zxvf Python-3.8.12.tgzĢ.

If you are interested to install python3.8 to a custom location then perform the following steps on your machine.īefore installing Python 3.8, you must install the necessary developer tools and packages such as gcc, make, Openssl-devel, Bzip2-devel, Libffi-devel, and Zlib-devel yum install gcc openssl-devel bzip2-devel libffi-devel zlib-devel -y The output will be: Python 3.8.6 Install Python3.8 to a custom location Now let’s verify the Python3 version as follows: python3 -version or just type python3 Just type the serial number of the version you want to use.

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