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

[alexkleider]

On my Debian 10 system 'apt install python3' would bring in python3.7. (Unnecessary since it's already there by default.)
I believe the goal is to bring in python3.8 and if so is there any option other than to build locally?


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On Thursday, July 9, 2020 9:21 AM, Alan Gauld via Tutor <tutor at python.org> wrote:

> 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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