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Helps installign python in any environment
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Below are the list of commands to install python3.7.3 in any linux machine

Update the packages and install required dev packages

sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev libgdbm-dev libnss3-dev libssl-dev libreadline-dev libffi-dev wget

Download python from repo and untar

curl -O https://<python-code-hosting>/python-dist/3.7.3/Python-3.7.3.tgz
tar zxvf Python-3.7.3.tgz

To check dependencies on your system and optimize the Python binary for your system

cd Python-3.7.3
./configure --enable-optimizations

Running build process with every processor in your machine

make -j `nproc`

To install python 3.7.3

sudo make altinstall

Validate the installation

python3.7 --version
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