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Install Python3.6 interpreter on ubuntu 16.04
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Install Python3.6 interpreter on ubuntu 16.04

From here, we can pretty much follow the exact same procedure.

On a terminal just do the following steps:

Install dependencies:

sudo apt install build-essential checkinstall libreadline-gplv2-dev \
libncursesw5-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev tk-dev libgdbm-dev libc6-dev \
libbz2-dev openssl

Download and untar the desired version:

mkdir -p $HOME/opt
cd $HOME/opt
curl -O https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.6.4/Python-3.6.4.tgz
tar -xzf Python-3.6.4.tgz

Install python3.6 while keeping python3.5 as the default python3 version on ubuntu 16.04.

cd Python-3.6.4/
./configure --enable-shared --enable-optimizations --prefix=/usr/local LDFLAGS="-Wl,--rpath=/usr/local/lib"
sudo make altinstall

Check it was installed properly:

>> python3.6 -V
Python 3.6.4

Enjoy!

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