Compilation and Installation

Procedure

1. Use PuTTY to log in to the server as the root user.
2. Decompress the Python-3.8.2.tgz installation package.

   cd /path/to/PYTHON

3. Decompress the Python installation package.

   tar -zxvf Python-3.8.2.tgz

4. Go to the directory generated after the decompression.

   cd Python-3.8.2

5. Perform the configuration.

   ./configure --prefix=/path/to/PYTHON  --enable-shared  --enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions  --enable-optimizations

6. Perform the compilation and installation.

   make -j64 && make install

7. Configure the environment variables.

   export PATH=/path/to/PYTHON/bin:$PATH
   export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/PYTHON/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

8. Add a soft link.

   rm -f /usr/bin/python3
   rm -f /usr/bin/pip3
   ln -s /path/to/PYTHON/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python3
   ln -s /path/to/PYTHON/bin/pip3 /usr/bin/pip3