How do I install Python 3 on an AWS EC2 instance

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I m trying to install python 3 x on an AWS EC2 instance and   sudo yum install python3   doesn t work   No package python3 available    I ve googled around and I can t find anyone else who has this problem so I m asking here  Do I have to manually download and install it

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As of Amazon Linux version 2017 09 python 3 6 is now available   sudo yum install python36 python36-virtualenv python36-pip   See the Release Notes for more info and other packages

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EC2  on the Amazon Linux AMI  currently supports python3 4 and python3 5   sudo yum install python35 sudo yum install python35-pip

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Adding to all the answers already available for this question  I would like to add the steps I followed to install Python3 on AWS EC2 instance running CentOS 7  You can find the entire details at this link    https   aws-labs com install-python-3-centos-7-2   First  we need to enable SCL  SCL is a community project that allows you to build  install  and use multiple versions of software on the same system  without affecting system default packages   sudo yum install centos-release-scl   Now that we have SCL repository  we can install the python3  sudo yum install rh-python36   To access Python 3 6 you need to launch a new shell instance using the Software Collection scl tool   scl enable rh-python36 bash   If you check the Python version now you   ll notice that Python 3 6 is the default version  python --version   It is important to point out that Python 3 6 is the default Python version only in this shell session  If you exit the session or open a new session from another terminal Python 2 7 will be the default Python version   Now  Install the python development tools by typing   sudo yum groupinstall    Development Tools      Now create a virtual environment so that the default python packages don t get messed up   mkdir   my new project cd   my new project python -m venv my project venv   To use this virtual environment   source my project venv bin activate   Now  you have your virtual environment set up with python3

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If you do a  sudo yum list   grep python3   you will see that while they don t have a  python3  package  they do have a  python34  package  or a more recent release  such as  python36   Installing it is as easy as    sudo yum install python34 python34-pip

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Here are the steps I used to manually install python3 for anyone else who wants to do it as it s not super straight forward  EDIT  It s almost certainly easier to use the yum package manager  see other answers     Note  you ll probably want to do sudo yum groupinstall  Development Tools  before doing this otherwise pip won t install   wget https   www python org ftp python 3 4 2 Python-3 4 2 tgz tar zxvf Python-3 4 2 tgz cd Python-3 4 2 sudo yum install gcc   configure --prefix  opt python3 make sudo yum install openssl-devel sudo make install sudo ln -s  opt python3 bin python3  usr bin python3 python3  should start the interpreter if it s worked  quit   to exit

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As   NickT said   there s no python3 4-6  in the default yum repos in Amazon Linux 2  as of today it uses 3 7 and looking at all answers here we can say it will be changed over time   I was looking for python3 6 on Amazon Linux 2 but amazon-linux-extras shows a lot of options but no python at all  in fact  you can try to find the version you know in epel repo   sudo amazon-linux-extras install epel  yum search python   grep   python3  x8   python34 x86 64   Version 3 of the Python programming language aka Python 3000 python36 x86 64   Interpreter of the Python programming language

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Here is the one command to install python3 on Amazon linux ec2 instance   sudo yum install python3 -y  python3 --version Python 3 7 6

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Note  This may be obsolete for current versions of Amazon Linux 2 since late 2018  see comments   you can now directly install it via yum install python3    In Amazon Linux 2  there isn t a python3 4-6  in the default yum repos  instead there s the Amazon Extras Library    sudo amazon-linux-extras install python3   If you want to set up isolated virtual environments with it  using yum install d virtualenv tools don t seem to reliably work     virtualenv --python python3 my venv     Calling the venv module tool is less finicky  and you could double check it s what you want expect with python3 --version beforehand   python3 -m venv my venv     Other things it can install  versions as of 18 Jan 18     ec2-user x     amazon-linux-extras list   0  ansible2   disabled     2 4 2     1  emacs   disabled     25 3     2  memcached1 5   disabled     1 5 1     3  nginx1 12   disabled     1 12 2     4  postgresql9 6   disabled     9 6 6     5  python3 latest  enabled     3 6 2     6  redis4 0   disabled     4 0 5     7  R3 4   disabled     3 4 3     8  rust1   disabled     1 22 1     9  vim   disabled     8 0    10  golang1 9   disabled     1 9 2    11  ruby2 4   disabled     2 4 2    12  nano   disabled     2 9 1    13  php7 2   disabled     7 2 0    14  lamp-mariadb10 2-php7 2   disabled     10 2 10 7 2 0

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Amazon Linux now supports python36    python36-pip is not available  So need to follow a different route   sudo yum install python36 python36-devel python36-libs python36-tools    If you like to have pip3 6  curl -O https   bootstrap pypa io get-pip py sudo python3 get-pip py

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On Debian derivatives such as Ubuntu  use apt  Check the apt repository for the versions of Python available to you  Then  run a command similar to the following  substituting the correct package name   sudo apt-get install python3   On Red Hat and derivatives  use yum  Check the yum repository for the versions of Python available to you  Then  run a command similar to the following  substituting the correct package name   sudo yum install python36   On SUSE and derivatives  use zypper  Check the repository for the versions of Python available to you  Then  run a command similar to the following  substituting the correct package name   sudo zypper install python3

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