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Ludo
Ludo

Reputation: 2527

How to install python3.6 on aws ec2 instance

This question is specifically for installing version 3.6 of python. Not any other versions.

I'm using aws' amazonlinux docker image and trying to install python3.6 on it. It worked less than a month ago simply using yum install python3.x86_64, but now it seems that all python3 versions are using python3.7 as shown below:


bash-4.2# sudo yum list | grep python3 
python3.i686                           3.7.4-1.amzn2.0.3              amzn2-core
python3.x86_64                         3.7.4-1.amzn2.0.3              amzn2-core
python3-Cython.x86_64                  0.27.3-2.amzn2.0.2             amzn2-core
python3-debug.x86_64                   3.7.4-1.amzn2.0.3              amzn2-core
python3-devel.x86_64                   3.7.4-1.amzn2.0.3              amzn2-core
python3-libs.i686                      3.7.4-1.amzn2.0.3              amzn2-core
python3-libs.x86_64                    3.7.4-1.amzn2.0.3              amzn2-core
python3-lit.noarch                     0.7.1-1.amzn2.0.1              amzn2-core
python3-openmpi.x86_64                 4.0.1-11.amzn2.0.1             amzn2-core
python3-pip.noarch                     9.0.3-1.amzn2.0.1              amzn2-core
python3-rpm.x86_64                     4.11.3-40.amzn2.0.3            amzn2-core
python3-rpm-macros.noarch              3-23.amzn2                     amzn2-core
python3-setuptools.noarch              38.4.0-3.amzn2.0.6             amzn2-core
python3-test.x86_64                    3.7.4-1.amzn2.0.3              amzn2-core
python3-tkinter.x86_64                 3.7.4-1.amzn2.0.3              amzn2-core
python3-tools.x86_64                   3.7.4-1.amzn2.0.3              amzn2-core
python3-wheel.noarch                   0.30.0a0-9.amzn2.0.3           amzn2-core

Upvotes: 4

Views: 6996

Answers (2)

AWS PS
AWS PS

Reputation: 4708

Please enable ius repository and install python36u

https://www.certdepot.net/rhel7-how-to-install-the-ius-community-repository/

yum install python36u

Upvotes: 0

sayan
sayan

Reputation: 1540

You can just download and build from source.

The steps are as follows:

  1. Install gcc and sqlite-devel yum install gcc sqlite-devel
  2. Extract the downloaded archive and cd to the directory
  3. Configure with ./configure --enable-optimizations
  4. And finally make altinstall.

altinstall avoid replacing the default /usr/bin/python.

That's it!

Upvotes: 1

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