Installing Python 3 on RHEL

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I m trying to install python3 on RHEL using the following steps   yum search python3   Which returned  No matches found for  python3  Followed by   yum search python   None of the search results contained python3  What should I try next

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Installing from RPM is generally better  because    you can install and uninstall  properly  python3  the installation time is way faster  If you work in a cloud environment with multiple VMs  compiling python3 on each VMs is not acceptable    Solution 1  Red Hat  amp  EPEL repositories  Red Hat has added through the EPEL repository    Python 3 4 for CentOS 6  Python 3 6 for CentOS 7    EPEL  How to install Python 3 4 on CentOS 6  sudo yum install -y epel-release sudo yum install -y python34    Install pip3 sudo yum install -y python34-setuptools    install easy install-3 4 sudo easy install-3 4 pip   You can create your virtualenv using pyvenv   pyvenv  tmp foo    EPEL  How to install Python 3 6 on CentOS 7  With CentOS7  pip3 6 is provided as a package     sudo yum install -y epel-release sudo yum install -y python36 python36-pip   You can create your virtualenv using pyvenv   python3 6 -m venv  tmp foo   If you use the pyvenv script  you ll get a WARNING     pyvenv-3 6  tmp foo WARNING  the pyenv script is deprecated in favour of  python3 6 -m venv    Solution 2  IUS Community repositories  The IUS Community provides some up-to-date packages for RHEL  amp  CentOS  The guys behind are from Rackspace  so I think that they are quite trustworthy     https   ius io   Check the right repo for you here   https   ius io setup   IUS  How to install Python 3 6 on CentOS 6  sudo yum install -y https   repo ius io ius-release-el6 rpm sudo yum install -y python36u python36u-pip   You can create your virtualenv using pyvenv   python3 6 -m venv  tmp foo    IUS  How to install Python 3 6 on CentOS 7  sudo yum install -y https   repo ius io ius-release-el7 rpm sudo yum install -y python36u python36u-pip   You can create your virtualenv using pyvenv   python3 6 -m venv  tmp foo

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yum install python34 x86 64 works if you have epel-release installed  which this answer explains how to  and I confirmed it worked on RHEL 7 3    cat  etc  -release NAME  Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server  VERSION  7 3  Maipo     type python3 python3 is hashed   usr bin python3

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You can download a source RPMs and binary RPMs for RHEL6   CentOS6 from here  This is a backport from the newest Fedora development source rpm to RHEL6   CentOS6

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As of RHEL 8  you can install python3 directly from the official repositories    podman run --rm -ti ubi8 bash  root 453fc5c55104     yum install python3                                                                                                                                                     Updating Subscription Management repositories                                                                                                                                                  Unable to read consumer identity                                                                                                                                                               Subscription Manager is operating in container mode                                                                                                                                            This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management  You can use subscription-manager to register          Installed    platform-python-pip-9 0 3-16 el8 noarch   python3-pip-9 0 3-16 el8 noarch   python3-setuptools-39 2 0-5 el8 noarch   python36-3 6 8-2 module el8 1 0 3334 5cb623d7 x86 64        Complete   You can even get python 3 8   root 453fc5c55104     yum install python38 Installed    python38-3 8 0-6 module el8 2 0 5978 503155c0 x86 64   python38-libs-3 8 0-6 module el8 2 0 5978 503155c0 x86 64                                          python38-pip-19 2 3-5 module el8 2 0 5979 f9f0b1d2 noarch                                     python38-pip-wheel-19 2 3-5 module el8 2 0 5979 f9f0b1d2 noarch                                    python38-setuptools-41 6 0-4 module el8 2 0 5978 503155c0 noarch                              python38-setuptools-wheel-41 6 0-4 module el8 2 0 5978 503155c0 noarch                            Complete

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If you want official RHEL packages you can use RHSCL  Red Hat Software Collections   More details    Guide to Python 3 3 in RHSCL 1 1 How to access and download Red Hat Software Collections   40 RHSCL  41  and or Red Hat Developer Toolset   40 DTS  41     You have to have access to Red Hat Customer Portal to read full articles

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I see all the answers as either asking to compile python3 from code or installing the binary RPM package  Here is another answer to enable EPEL  Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux  and then install python using yum  Steps for RHEL 7 5  Maipo  yum install wget    y wget https   dl fedoraproject org pub epel 7 x86 64 Packages e epel-release-7-XX noarch rpm   Verify actual RPM name by browsing dir over browser rpm    ivh epel-  rpm yum install python36  Also see link

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Here are the steps i followed to install Python3   yum install wget wget https   www python org ftp python 3 6 0 Python-3 6 0 tar xz   sudo tar xvf Python-3      cd Python-3    sudo   configure --prefix  opt python3     sudo make    sudo make install    sudo ln -s  opt python3 bin python3  usr bin python3     usr bin python3     Python 3 6 0

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Along with Python 2 7 and 3 3  Red Hat Software Collections now includes Python 3 4 - all work on both RHEL 6 and 7   RHSCL 2 0 docs are at https   access redhat com documentation en-US Red Hat Software Collections   Plus lot of articles at developerblog redhat com   edit  Follow these instructions to install Python 3 4 on RHEL 6 7 or CentOS 6 7     1  Install the Software Collections tools  yum install scl-utils    2  Download a package with repository for your system      See the Yum Repositories on external link  For RHEL CentOS 6   wget https   www softwarecollections org en scls rhscl rh-python34 epel-6-x86 64 download rhscl-rh-python34-epel-6-x86 64 noarch rpm    or for RHEL CentOS 7 wget https   www softwarecollections org en scls rhscl rh-python34 epel-7-x86 64 download rhscl-rh-python34-epel-7-x86 64 noarch rpm    3  Install the repo package  on RHEL you will need to enable optional channel first   yum install rhscl-rh-python34-  noarch rpm    4  Install the collection  yum install rh-python34    5  Start using software collections  scl enable rh-python34 bash

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You can install miniconda  https   conda io miniconda html   That s a bit more than just python 3 7 but the installation is very straightforward and simple   curl https   repo anaconda com miniconda Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86 64 sh -O sudo yum install bzip2 bash Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86 64 sh   You ll have to accept the license agreement and choose some options in interactive mode  accept the defaults   I believe it can be also installed silently somehow

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Use the SCL repos   sudo sh -c  wget -qO- http   people redhat com bkabrda scl python33 repo  gt  gt   etc yum repos d scl repo  sudo yum install python33 scl enable python27    This last command will have to be run each time you want to use python27 rather than the system default

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I was having the same issue using the python 2 7  Follow the below steps to upgrade successfully to 3 6  You can also try this one-   See before upgrading version is 2 x  python --version Python 2 7 5  Use below command to upgrade your python to 3 x version-  yum install python3x  replace x with the version number you want   i e  for installing python 3 6 execute  yum install python36  After that if you want to set this python for your default version then in bashrc file add   vi    bashrc      alias python  python3 6   execute bash command to apply the settings  bash   Now you can see the version below  python --version Python 3 6 3

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For RHEL on Amazon Linux  using python3 I had to do       sudo yum install python34-devel

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For those working on AWS EC2 RHEL 7 5   use sudo  enable required repos  yum-config-manager --enable rhui-REGION-rhel-server-optional yum-config-manager --enable rhui-REGION-rhel-server-rhscl   Install Python 3 6  yum install rh-python36   Install other dependencies  yum install rh-python36-numpy  rh-python36-scipy  rh-python36-python-tools  rh-python36-python-six

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Full working 36 when SCL is not available  based on Joys input   yum install wget    y wget https   dl fedoraproject org pub epel 7 x86 64 Packages e epel-release-7-11 noarch rpm rpm    ivh epel-  rpm yum install python36  sudo yum install python34-setuptools sudo mkdir  usr local lib python3 6 sudo mkdir  usr local lib python3 6 site-packages  sudo easy install-3 6 pip   Finally activate the environment     pyvenv-3 6 py3 source py3 bin activate   Then python3

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It is easy to install it manually    Download  there may be newer releases on Python org       wget https   www python org ftp python 3 4 3 Python-3 4 3 tar xz  Unzip    tar xf Python-3      cd Python-3    Prepare compilation      configure  Build    make  Install    make install   OR if you don t want to overwrite the python executable  safer  at least on some distros yum needs python to be 2 x  such as for RHEL6  - you can install python3   as a concurrent instance to the system default with an altinstall     make altinstall    Now if you want an alternative installation directory  you can pass --prefix to the configurecommand   Example  for  installing  Python in  opt local  just add --prefix  opt local    After the make install step  In order to use your new Python installation  it could be  that you still have to add the  prefix  bin to the  PATH and  prefix  lib to the  LD LIBRARY PATH  depending of the --prefix you passed

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Three steps using Python 3 5 by Software Collections   sudo yum install centos-release-scl sudo yum install rh-python35 scl enable rh-python35 bash   Note that sudo is not needed for the last command  Now we can see that python 3 is the default for the current shell   python --version Python 3 5 1   Simply skip the last command if you d rather have Python 2 as the default for the current shell   Now let s say that your Python 3 scripts give you an error like  usr bin env  python3  No such file or directory  That s because the installation is usually done to an unusual path    opt rh rh-python35 root bin python3   The above would normally be a symlink  If you want python3 to be automatically added to the  PATH for all users on startup  one way to do this is adding a file like   sudo vim  etc profile d rh-python35 sh   Which would have something like      bin bash  PATH  PATH  opt rh rh-python35 root bin    And now after a reboot  if we do  python3 --version   It should just work  One exception would be an auto-generated user like  jenkins  in a Jenkins server which doesn t have a shell  In that case  manually adding the path to  PATH in scripts would be one way to go   Finally  if you re using sudo pip3 to install packages  but it tells you that pip3 cannot be found  it could be that you have a secure path in  etc sudoers  Checking with sudo visudo should confirm that  To temporarily use the standard PATH when running commands you can do  for example   sudo env  PATH  PATH  pip3 --version   See this question for more details   NOTE  There is a newer Python 3 6 by Software Collections  but I wouldn t recommend it at this time  because I had major headaches trying to install Pycurl  For Python 3 5 that isn t an issue because I just did sudo yum install sclo-python35-python-pycurl which worked out of the box

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In addition to gecco s answer I would change step 3 from     configure   to     configure --prefix  opt python3   Then after installation you could also     ln -s  opt python3 bin python3  usr bin python3   It is to ensure that installation will not conflict with python installed with yum   See explanation I have found on Internet   http   www hosting com support linux installing-python-3-on-centosredhat-5x-from-source

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If you are on RHEL and want a Red Hat supported Python  use Red Hat Software collections  RHSCL   The EPEL and IUS packages are not supported by Red Hat   Also many of the answers above point to the CentOS software collections  While you can install those  they aren t the Red Hat supported packages for RHEL     Also  the top voted answer gives bad advice - On RHEL you do not want to change  usr bin python   usr bin python2 because you will likely break yum and other RHEL admin tools  Take a look at  bin yum  it is a Python script that starts with    usr bin python   If you compile Python from source  do not do a make install as root   That will overwrite  usr bin python  If you break yum it can be difficult to restore your system   For more info  see How to install Python 3  pip  venv  virtualenv  and pipenv on RHEL on developers redhat com   It covers installing and using Python 3 from RHSCL  using Python Virtual Environments  and a number of tips for working with software collections and working with Python on RHEL   In a nutshell  to install Python 3 6 via Red Hat Software Collections     su -   subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-7-server-optional-rpms      --enable rhel-server-rhscl-7-rpms   yum -y install  development   yum -y install rh-python36    yum -y install rh-python36-numpy      rh-python36-scipy       rh-python36-python-tools      rh-python36-python-six   To use a software collection you have to enable it   scl enable rh-python36 bash   However if you want Python 3 permanently enabled  you can add the following to your    bashrc and then log out and back in again  Now Python 3 is permanently in your path     Add RHSCL Python 3 to my login environment source scl source enable rh-python36   Note  once you do that  typing python now gives you Python 3 6 instead of Python 2 7   See the above article for all of this and a lot more detail

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Python3 was recently added to EPEL7 as Python34   There is ongoing  currently  effort to make packaging guidelines about how to package things for Python3 in EPEL7   See https   bugzilla redhat com show bug cgi id 1219411 and https   lists fedoraproject org pipermail python-devel 2015-July 000721 html

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