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

[dn]

On 10/07/20 4:21 AM, Alan Gauld via Tutor 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

+1


...

> 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...

What is "software manager"?
(in case the generic term's first search-result is not what you had in 
mind)
- something other than apt-get
- a pre-packaged distribution, eg Anaconda
- an MS-Win package (also available in Linux Mint?)
- something else?
-- 
Regards =dn