Commands Summary for Building and Installing Python for Linux for On-Premises Databases

4.2.1 Commands Summary for Building and Installing Python for Linux for On-Premises Databases

The commands used to build and install Python for Linux for On-Premises Databases are listed in the following example.

Example 4-1 Build and Install Python for Linux for On-Premises Databases

wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.12.6/Python-3.12.6.tgz
 
mkdir -p $HOME/python
tar -xvzf Python-3.12.6.tgz --strip-components=1 -C $HOME/python
  
sudo yum install perl-Env libffi-devel openssl openssl-devel tk-devel xz-devel zlib-devel bzip2-devel readline-devel libuuid-devel ncurses-devel
 
cd $HOME/python
./configure --enable-shared --prefix=$HOME/python
 
make clean; make
make altinstall
 
export PYTHONHOME=$HOME/python
export PATH=$PYTHONHOME/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PYTHONHOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
 
cd $HOME/python/bin
ln -s python3.12 python3

Parent topic: Build and Install Python for Linux for On-Premises Databases