[Tutor] New to Linux, trying to install python 3 - please help :)

[Alan Gauld]

On 09/07/2020 15:26, Mats Wichmann wrote:

>>> Build Instructions
>>
>> Don't.
> 
> to be clear: there's absolutely nothing wrong with building your own
> Pythons from source, but if you're new to Linux, you have lots of other
> things to think about, and you should just use the versions that your
> distribution has packaged for you

One thing you should note is that Python on Linux comes in lots of
parts, unlike Windows where one download gets everything. So as well as
installing python3 you possibly want to install

python3-tk and
idle-python3.8

a few others. This is where the software manager app beats apt-get, you
can search for Python3 and get a list of all the possible bits 'n pieces
you might need.

Similarly most popular packages you may have installed with pip are
also available in the software manager - flask, lxml, etc...

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