[Tutor] Linux Python install?

[CPIM Ronin]

Sorry to bother the list with so simple a question but on moving to Linux 
from Windows XP,  it's not clear to me how to accomplish a Python install on 
Linux. On XP it was mostly point and click on a ".msi" file (with msi 
standing for Microsoft install). I've loaded the latest Fedora/Redhat 
release on an old AMD machine. How do I install Python such that it shows up 
as a selection under the Programming task bar with EMACS?
I assume I have to do this under root, right?

Step by step please.

Thanks.

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