deb file so I can uninstall easily later, so we install it first: apt-get install checkinstallĪnd substitute the last line make install with: checkinstall I chose to install it under the directory /opt/python which I created before, also I used the checkinstall package to create a. Make install # <- in the docs but don't execute: use checkinstall Then we cd into the extracted directory: cd Python-2.7.6Īnd follow the instructions on the Python docs. Next we extract the downloaded source file: tar zxf Python-2.7.6.tgz Ok after a lot of searching I decided to build Python from source, so I downloaded the compressed source tarball from the Python download page, now we need to install the build-essential package to be able to compile the source files: apt-get install build-essentialĪlso we need to install these development packages which are required for some Python modules: libbz2-dev

So how can I install the latest version of Python ? on the Python download page there is the source tarball, how can I use that to install it separately like having another folder in /usr/lib/ like python2.7.6 and make the python link in /usr/bin/ point to the new executable, or maybe upgrade the current version if it won't break anything. It outputs python is already the newest version. So in the directory /usr/bin/ there are these files that I can call from the terminal:Ĭurrently the latest version of Python is 2.7.6 which I want to install, but I don't know how, I tried using apt-get: apt-get install python I'm still new to Linux, so I'm still trying to understand where executables and their libraries are and how to install packages, so I have Debian Wheezy 7.3 which has these Python versions:

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