Comments on: How to Install Latest Python Version in Ubuntu

By: Chris Welsh

Chris Welsh — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 10:08:28 +0000

I work with Ubuntu in a professional capacity. Deadsnakes PPA is an OS killer!! Avoid at all costs. Use pyenv or a container

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Mon, 18 May 2020 10:10:44 +0000

In reply to Samundra Marasini.

@Samundra

Do you see Python3 in the output file when you run the following command:

$ ls -l /usr/bin/python*

If it is installed, you can make it a the default version: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41986507/unable-to-set-default-python-version-to-python3-in-ubuntu

By: Samundra Marasini

Samundra Marasini — Mon, 18 May 2020 05:04:25 +0000

Firstly thank you for such information in this regard. But following the all above-mentioned steps I could not get the latest i.e 3.6 version of python on my ubuntu 16.04 pc. It pops out as:

samundra@samundra-Vostro-5468:~$ python3.6
No command 'python3.6' found, did you mean:
 Command 'python3.5' from package 'python3.5-minimal' (main)
python3.6: command not found

Now how can I resolve this and get the python version 3.6??

By: CHAFIA Ibtissa

CHAFIA Ibtissa — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 10:56:56 +0000

Thank you very much for this good explanation.

By: Afsal

Afsal — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 03:52:12 +0000

I have changed the symlink to python3 from python3.5 to python3.6, after that terminal won’t open, when i revert back that change terminal is working properly what might be the reason for that.