I want to install the latest Python tarball on Ubuntu, downloaded from http://python.org/download/.
Is this is a correct way to install?
./configure
make
make install
If not, how do I do that?
First, install some dependencies:
sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall
sudo apt-get install libreadline-gplv2-dev libncursesw5-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev tk-dev libgdbm-dev libc6-dev libbz2-dev
Then download using the following command:
version=2.7.13
cd ~/Downloads/
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/$version/Python-$version.tgz
Extract and go to the directory:
tar -xvf Python-$version.tgz
cd Python-$version
Now, install using the command you just tried, using checkinstall instead to make it easier to uninstall if needed:
./configure
make
sudo checkinstall
Change version to whichever version you need (version=2.7.1 or version=3.6.0, for example).
