Install Python 3.7.0 on Centos 7

Install Python 3.7.0 on CentOS 7

Install Python 3.7.0 on CentOS/RHEL 7

1.Requirements:

yum install gcc openssl-devel bzip2-devel

2.Download Python 3.7:

cd /usr/src
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.0/Python-3.7.0.tgz
tar xzf Python-3.7.0.tgz

3.Install Python 3.7.0:

cd Python-3.7.0
./configure --enable-optimizations
make altinstall

(make altinstall is used to prevent replacing the default python binary file /usr/bin/python)

4.Remove downloaded source archive file from your system:

rm /usr/src/Python-3.7.0.tgz

5.Check Python Version

python3.7 -V

echo 'alias python3.7="python3"' >> ~/.bashrc

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Команды Python:

django-admin startproject firstproject // создание нового проекта
django-admin -h // посмотреть все команды

#Создание нового приложения:

python manage.py startapp firstapp

I did the above and also

$ ln -s /usr/local/bin/python3.7 /usr/bin/python3.7
$ ln -s /usr/local/bin/pip3.7 /usr/bin/pip3.7

$ python3.7 -V
Python 3.7.9

I am now trying to create a virtualenv and get the following:

$ virtualenv -p python3.7 venv
Running virtualenv with interpreter /usr/local/bin/python3.7
Using base prefix '/usr/local'
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/virtualenv.py:1043: DeprecationWarning: the imp module is deprecated in favour of importlib; see the module's documentation for alternative uses
  import imp
New python executable in /opt/petadex/venv/bin/python3.7
Also creating executable in /opt/petadex/venv/bin/python
Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...
  Complete output from command /opt/petadex/venv/bin/python3.7 - setuptools pip wheel:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 7, in <module>
  File "/usr/share/python3-wheels/pip-9.0.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/__init__.py", line 44, in <module>
  File "/usr/share/python3-wheels/pip-9.0.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/vcs/mercurial.py", line 9, in <module>
  File "/usr/share/python3-wheels/pip-9.0.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/download.py", line 36, in <module>
  File "/usr/share/python3-wheels/pip-9.0.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/utils/glibc.py", line 4, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/ctypes/__init__.py", line 7, in <module>
    from _ctypes import Union, Structure, Array
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_ctypes'
----------------------------------------
...Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...done.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 2333, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 714, in main
    symlink=options.symlink)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 949, in create_environment
    download=download,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 905, in install_wheel
    call_subprocess(cmd, show_stdout=False, extra_env=env, stdin=SCRIPT)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 798, in call_subprocess
    % (cmd_desc, proc.returncode))
OSError: Command /opt/petadex/venv/bin/python3.7 - setuptools pip wheel failed with error code 1

Appreciate any and all help

Had same issue on Centos 7, it can be fixed by install some packages such as libffi-devel. If it does not work maybe try install the following:
yum install gcc openssl-devel bzip2-devel libffi-devel zlib-devel xz-devel

After installing these packages, you have to reinstall the version of python. It went well in my case. Hope it helps

You will need :
sudo yum install libffi-devel

That works perfectly AlmaLinux release 8.5

Here's my one-liner (well, a 3-liner) for installing Python 3.7 on CentOS7

sudo su
yum install -y wget gcc openssl-devel bzip2-devel libffi-devel zlib-devel xz-devel ; cd /usr/src; wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.0/Python-3.7.0.tgz ; tar xzf Python-3.7.0.tgz ; cd Python-3.7.0 ; ./configure --enable-optimizations ; make altinstall ; rm -rf /usr/bin/python3 ; ln -s /usr/local/bin/python3.7 /usr/bin/python3 ; python3 -V
uname -a