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

[Peter Otten]

alexkleider via Tutor wrote:

> 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?

I don't know. But if you end up installing from source use

$ sudo make altinstall  # usually safe; you can have multiple versions of
                        # Python in parallel

not

$ sudo make install  # danger; may break your system